NATO Launches Elite Rapid-Reaction Force
From Times Wire Reports
NATO launched the first units of an elite 20,000-member rapid-reaction force that was proclaimed to be the spearhead of the alliance’s transformation from Cold War bastion to global peace enforcer. Presiding at the force’s inauguration was U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the alliance’s commander.
Run from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Northern Command in Brunssum, Netherlands, the NATO Response Force will initially have 9,000 soldiers, sailors and aviators and be at full strength by October 2006.
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