NATO to assign a new corps to defend Estonia and Latvia

NATO is preparing to strengthen the defence of Estonia and Latvia by assigning an additional army corps to the Baltic region, a move intended to speed up the deployment of allied forces in the event of a war with Russia, Reuters reported on 26 May. According to two sources familiar with the plan, Germany and the Netherlands have agreed, in coordination with NATO, to assign the German-Netherlands Corps, headquartered in Münster, western Germany, to the defence of Estonia and Latvia. The move would add another layer to NATO’s defence architecture on its north-eastern flank – one of the alliance’s most exposed regions since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading NATO to assign a new corps to defend Estonia and Latvia at Estonian World.