Originally Posted by
dead_pan
Given their first round response is likely to be conventional, its noteworthy there hasn't been any noticeable stepping up of the US's conventional forces in Europe. It doesn't appear they have the forces in place here to conduct anything more than a token strike somewhere. Unless of course it'll be more along the lines of Libya, with European states committing much of the firepower.
All the NATO countries have increased their fast deployment capabilities. In June NATO announced to increase the high readiness troops from 40000 to over 300000. Thats plenty more than what the Russians have had in Ukraine..