Playing catch-up with an active scenario on NATO’s Eastern flank makes for good Media coverage.
As Putin seems to be discovering, real conflict consumes personnel and materiel at a very high rate. Opening manufacturing or recruiting facilities, with their respective ponderous time-lines, only provides an answer many years down the line. UK and NATO are in a ‘NOW’ scenario, and reaping the rewards of years of neglect and contraction. Horses and Stable Doors time, chaps, and yet Vlad the Mad has been waving his Red Flags vigorously for ages … or did nobody think he was serious?