#trouée_de_suwałki

  • Foreign Policy - Situation Report - Suwalki Gap
    http://link.foreignpolicy.com/view/52543e66c16bcfa46f6ced1634dlf.1elv/c11237bc

    Remember the #Fulda_Gap! Fulda was a legendary spot in West Germany where during the Cold War, U.S. forces stood ready to stop the Soviets as they pounded their way into Europe. And now amid tensions with Russia it looks like the gap is back, at least in spirit, though it has moved a little bit to the east according to Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of the 30,000 U.S. soldiers in Europe. Hodges told FP’s Paul McLeary about the “#Suwalki_Gap,” a narrow strip of Polish territory that sits in the seam between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to the northwest and Moscow-friendly nation of Belarus to the southeast, which has become the latest potential flashpoint between an increasingly aggressive Moscow and NATO.

    Kaliningrad has long bristled with thousands of Russian troops and advanced weapons, while Belarus recently agreed to house a large Russian air base, making the Suwalki area a small vulnerable land bridge increasingly squeezed by Russian hardware. Hodges acknowledges, “that’s an important piece of geography right there.

    Ah, la #trouée_de_Fulda et les hordes blindées du Pacte de Varsovie, la bataille aéromobile, toussa, toussa…
    Et donc maintenant, le déferlement se fera par la #trouée_de_Suwałki