RUKLA, Lithuania — A 60-mile long sliver of flat land just inside
NATO member Poland gives the U.S Army's commander in Europe sleepless
nights.
It's called the "Suwalki Gap" and should
Vladimir Putin decide to invade, it would be perfect for advancing
Russian tanks. Sandwiched between Moscow-ally Belarus to the east and
Russia's far western enclave of Kaliningrad, it's also why the military
alliance is training harder — and faster.
If the Russian president gave the order to sweep across Suwalki, his
forces would initially split the Baltics from the rest of NATO before
the West could do anything to stop it.
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