NATO will deploy troops on Eastern Flank

  Britain, Germany and the US have announced they will deploy NATO forces on Russia's border from next year to help deter any show of force by Moscow, Reuters reported "Britain will lead one of the battalions," British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said at a meeting of NATO defense ministers, adding London will send up to 700 troops to the Baltics and Poland. "That should send a very strong signal of our determination to defend the Baltic states and Poland in the face of continued Russian aggression," he said. NATO's battalions are part of a wider deterrent to be approved at the Warsaw summit on July 8. It will involve troops on rotation, warehoused equipment and a highly mobile force backed by NATO's 40,000-strong rapid reaction unit.