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Disinfo: Involvement of Baltic states in MDO of the US army could cause real armed conflict

Summary

Small Baltic states could begin the big war. If the Baltic states will be involved in Multi-Domain Operation (MDO) warfare, it would increase the risk of war in the region.

The Baltic states are in Russia’s neighbourhood. Their territories could be used for intelligence purposes, electronic warfare and radiolocation.

The nature of MDO operations is offensive. The mistake in an offensive MDO operation (of the US forces in Europe) in the Baltics could cause real armed conflict.

Disproof

Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative, challenging the US presence in Europe. Also presenting Baltic states as an outpost against Russia.

The conception of MDO is still developing. The US Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) describe it as follows:

Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) describes how the U.S. Army, as part of the joint force [Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines] can counter and defeat a near-peer adversary capable of contesting the U.S. in all domains [air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace] in both competition and armed conflict.

In other words, it is in no way that MDO “is offensive” by nature. In the presented conception it is described as the countermeasure.

The statement that Baltic states could be involved in MDO of the US army in Europe is a speculative one. The whole narrative is based on words of Gen. Christopher Cavoli, however, in the original article the Baltic states are not mentioned at all.

See similar examples of speculations when the US is accusing of preparing ram against Russia or that US cyber forces are hiding behind Lithuania.

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Baltnews Lithuania (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 231
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 11/02/2021
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Country: US, Baltic states, Russia
  • Keywords: Cyber, War preparation, Encircling Russia, US presence in Europe
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