Operation Baltic Fortress, 2016
The RUSI Journal ISSN: 0307-1847 (Print) 1744-0378 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rusi20 Operation Baltic Fortress, 2016 Richard D Hooker Jr To cite this article: Richard D Hooker Jr (2015) Operation Baltic Fortress, 2016, The RUSI Journal, 160:3, 26-36, DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2015.1054731 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2015.1054731 Published online: 30 Jun 2015. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 752 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rusi20 Download by: [National Defense University] Date: 26 January 2017, At: 08:26 This work wasauthored as part of the Contributor’s official THE Rusi JOuRnal duties as an Employee of the UnitedStatesGovernment andisthereforeawork of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 USC 105, no copyrightprotection is available forsuch worksunder US Law. OPERaTiOn BalTic FORTREss, 2016 naTO DEFEnDs THE BalTic sTaTEs RicHaRD D HOOkER, JR The Russian intervention in Ukraine can be seen not as an isolated incident, but as part of a larger strategy aimed at re-establishing Russian control and influence over its near abroad – a sphere of influence severely diminished with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Building on its success in Georgia, the Russian Federation moved aggressively in 2014 to seize Crimea and destabilise eastern Ukraine. In each case, Russia leveraged ethnic Russian populations to encourage separatist movements, introducing Russian paramilitaries, intelligence operatives, special forces and eventually conventional forces. In this hypothetical scenario, written as a ‘historical perspective’, Richard D Hooker, Jr examines a possible next move against the Baltic States, where similar conditions apply.
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