The Very High Readiness Joint Task Force will include about 5,000 troops primarily from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, with maritime, special operations and aviation units.

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BRUSSELS — NATO allies will decide at a summit this week to increase the strength of their rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of their response to an “era of ...

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NATO members agree to form a “spearhead” force of several thousand land troops ready to deploy within a few days, NATO chief says.

More than 2,000 troops of NATO's new spearhead force are training on their response to a crisis, using tanks and live munition at a test range in Zagan, in southwestern Poland.

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO allies will decide at a summit this week to increase the strength of their rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of their response to an “era of ...

"This force can travel light, but strike hard if needed," Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters. This would be a "very high-readiness force able to deploy at very short notice," he added.