Event 0d0fe37e-b513-41cf-aac6-389f845258da

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Status: Approved Confidence: Low Category: Uncategorized Country: Estonia Country: Latvia Country: Lithuania

Source: https://www.fpri.org/article/2024/02/the-baltic-defense-line ...

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1y ago

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1mo ago

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1mo ago

Summary

Headline: The Baltic Defense Line

Short Summary: The Baltic states are planning an extensive defensive line along their borders with Russia and Belarus, seeking to deter or slow a possible large-scale invasion.

Description

Analysis of the proposed Baltic Defense Line—a major planned defensive barrier by Baltic states to counter potential Russian military incursions, including border fortifications, anti-tank obstacles, minefields, and security buffer zones.

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The Baltic Defense Line reflects a Baltic intention to link physical security (obstacles, border fortifications) with layered military and hybrid operational depth.

Challenges for the defensive line are substantial. First are the lengths of each national border.

The ultimate hope is the unconcealing preparation behind the talks and the defensive barriers will frighten Russia, convince them that the construction of the DefLine cannot be limited to its visual effect but will actually see the Baltic states rise to the defense.

An effective line based on operationally static, even if in practice today classic, defense will outmatch its intentions if the Russian client force or elite little Russian forces clinch the border.

Related URLs

https://www.fpri.org/article/2024/02/the-baltic-defense-line/

Source

https://www.fpri.org/article/2024/02/the-baltic-defense-line/

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