Stronger Defence of NATO?: ‘Stronger Defence Propaganda’
https://www.rozen-bakher.com/timeline-risks/25/03/2022/0525
Published Date: 25 March 2022
Rozen-Bakher, Z., Stronger Defence of NATO?: ‘Stronger Defence Propaganda’, Risks Timeline by Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher, 25 March 2022, https://www.rozen-bakher.com/timeline-risks/25/03/2022/0525
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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Researcher in International Relations and Foreign Policy with a Focus on International Security alongside Military, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade
25 March 2022 at 10:39. Looking in-depth at the numbers of the deployment of NATO troops on the East Border of NATO, revealed the ridiculous percentage of NATO troops in relation to the military personnel of each country (active and reserve). When I was seventeen, I volunteered to serve in the civil guard of my city in Israel, a city that has around 40K people, yet we had at that time more than 900 volunteers in the city's civil guard, like the 900 NATO troops in Bulgaria or the 800 NATO troops in Hungary (see the map below). Thus, what is the meaning in terms of army defence if NATO added an average of 5% NATO troops to the local army? It seems that someone in NATO missed the point of the objective of a military alliance. A Military alliance is not supposed to add 5%-10% military force to the military active and reserve force of a member country but to give a mass deployment in case of an attack against one of the members of the alliance. However, the Ukraine war is characterised by unprecedented propaganda from both sides, including 'propaganda acts' like the ridiculous deployment of NATO. At the end of the day, propaganda never wins a war, but the real outcome on the battlefield, so we need to look more at the hard facts and less at assessments (propaganda) that fill the news headlines in an unprecedented way during these days.
Member states of NATO - Wikipedia
Note, Keep in mind that the table from Wikipedia presents some countries without reserve like Poland, so the % of NATO troops in relation to the total military personnel of the national army is supposed to be lower if we take into account the military reserve.
