{"id":51861,"date":"2015-09-30T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fp_paul_mccraery-the_cold_war_in_europe_is_back_but_the_borders_have_moved\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T21:30:45","slug":"fp_paul_mccraery-the_cold_war_in_europe_is_back_but_the_borders_have_moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51861","title":{"rendered":"(FP) Paul McCraery&#8211;The Cold War in Europe is back, but the borders have moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnti-access\/area denial, or A2\/AD, is a growing problem,\u201d\u009d Gen. Philip Breedlove, supreme allied commander Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, told an audience in Washington on Monday. Kaliningrad has given Moscow the ability to better defend the Baltic, while the annexation of Crimea has done the same on the Black Sea, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe geography of Europe has changed\u201d\u009d since the end of the Cold War, Benitez said. \u201cThe geography of NATO has changed. In the Cold War NATO\u2019s borders were in the center of the continent, but now the front lines are the Baltics, and you\u2019re drawn to that small land bridge [near Suwalki].\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians have chosen to make this the new zone of friction, that\u2019s where you\u2019re seeing the air provocations,\u201d\u009d such as Russian warplanes flying with transponders off, said Benitez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/09\/29\/fulda-gap-nato-russia-putin-us-army\/?utm_content=bufferf0524&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnti-access\/area denial, or A2\/AD, is a growing problem,\u201d\u009d Gen. Philip Breedlove, supreme allied commander Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, told an audience in Washington on Monday. Kaliningrad has given Moscow the ability to better defend the Baltic, while<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51861\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,143,149,168,200,144,133,151,479,584,34,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}