NATO's First Major Defence Plans in Decades Revisit Cold War Past

NATO leaders are set to approve thousands of pages of secret military plans at the Vilnius summit in July, detailing how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack. This marks a fundamental shift as NATO had not drawn up large-scale defence plans for decades. The move comes as the alliance warns that it must have all planning in place well before a conflict with a peer adversary such as Moscow might erupt. The highly classified documents will assign certain troops to the defence of certain regions, giving nations guidance on how to upgrade their forces and logistics.