The Importance of Defense Plans

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The architect of these defense plans is General Chris Kavoli. He's an American general who serves as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACA. Russia's illegal, unprovoked, brutal invasion of Ukraine has upended many aspects of European security and our assumptions about it. It has forced us to recognize the imperative of collective territorial defense. That has fundamentally changed our alliance posture.

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