And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.
And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.
What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.
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