NATO Stirs Russian Anger by Bolstering Eastern Europe's Defenses
- Allies to rotate more troops to east, backed by U.S. spending
- AWACS radar jets to support coalition against Islamic State
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NATO approved new reinforcements for eastern Europe and considered dispatching surveillance jets to the Middle East, reawakening Russia’s fears of encirclement by hostile powers.
The U.S.-led alliance announced stepped-up troop rotations on its eastern flanks and more naval patrols in the Baltic Sea, and neared an agreement to send AWACS radar jets to back up the coalition fighting the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.