Specifically, he said, the blueprint pairs precision weapons with what he described as \u201caffordable mass\u201d \u2014 large numbers of autonomous systems, drones, and electronic warfare assets designed to sustain a protracted war of attrition.<\/p>\n
The \u201cblock, blunt, and break\u201d strategy he outlined is designed to stop an invasion in its tracks without trying to conquer the enemy\u2019s homeland.<\/p>\n
First, he said, allied forces immediately \u201cblock\u201d an attack at the border to prevent the enemy from seizing territory, a change in strategy since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Next, they \u201cblunt\u201d the offensive by hitting advancing troops from the air, sea and land to strip their momentum. Finally, if the attack continues, they \u201cbreak\u201d the enemy by targeting the supplies, communication links and command networks that keep their frontline forces fighting, weakening the aggressor to the point of collapse.<\/p>\n
General Grynkewich stressed that NATO is not interested in taking an adversary\u2019s land. By limiting the objective strictly to the tactical and operational neutralization of the adversary, NATO intends to deny the enemy any pretext for escalation, he said, placing the moral and strategic burden of expanding the war squarely on the aggressor.<\/p>\n
\u201cImplementing the theory of victory I\u2019ve described today would require me to issue orders that I hope to never give,\u201d he said. \u201cBut let there be no doubt, should war come, we will block, blunt any attack, and then if it does not cease, we will break the forces conducting aggression against us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kremlin officials have routinely dismissed the alarms being raised across Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no intention to fight Europe, to engage in warfare with Europe; that is utter nonsense,\u201d Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in September. \u201cBut Europe is preparing for war with us,\u201d he said. \u201cThis could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Goldman contributed reporting from London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specifically, he said, the blueprint pairs precision weapons with what he described as \u201caffordable mass\u201d \u2014 large numbers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1448,136984,1452,75,84,83,9,24,36267,63,27533,9045,1069,136983,9046,27534,41524,136985,41523],"class_list":["post-371782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-defense-and-military-forces","tag-donald","tag-donald-j","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","tag-nyc","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-tusk","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-v","tag-volodymyr","tag-warsaw-poland","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}