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How Poland Is Casting Itself as the Leader of NATO’s Eastern Flank

The welcoming ceremony for NATO’s multinational battalion headed by the U.S., Orzysz, Poland, April 13, 2017 (Sputnik photo via AP).
The welcoming ceremony for NATO’s multinational battalion headed by the U.S., Orzysz, Poland, April 13, 2017 (Sputnik photo via AP).
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Editor’s Note: This article is part of an ongoing WPR series about NATO members’ contributions to and relationships with the alliance. Last month, Poland’s government gave a warm welcome to a U.S.-led NATO battalion, which is part of a series of deployments to create “tripwire” deterrence to Russian aggression. “Generations of Poles have waited for this moment since the end of World War II, generations that dreamt of being part of the just, united, democratic and truly free West,” said President Andrzej Duda. As the largest country to join NATO since the end of the Cold War, Poland has tried […]

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