Poland's President Isn't Reassured by Obama’s NATO Plan

President Barack Obama's administration has announced a huge increase next year for NATO’s presence in Europe, in response to Russian aggression. But Poland, for one, is upset that most of the new money and equipment will go into Western Europe rather than to those alliance members on Europe’s vulnerable eastern front.

This week, the Pentagon said it would soon start rotating an additional full armored brigade in and out of Eastern Europe, part of the Obama administration’s “European Reassurance Initiative,” a fourfold increase in the U.S. program to bolster NATO. But a day after the announcement, Polish President Andrzej Duda told me that the program was insufficient to protect Eastern Europe in the case of a Russian attack.