NATO should have permanent bases in Baltics, top US general says

For NATO defence in Eastern Europe, the alliance needs permanent bases in the region, with Baltics and Poland among them, US Army’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley has said, as quoted by LRT.lt.
In a testimony to the US Congress, General Milley discussed necessary reinforcements in the eastern flank of the alliance.
«My advice would be to create permanent bases but don’t permanently station [forces], so you get the effect of permanence by rotational forces cycling through permanent bases,» the most senior American general said, adding that the Baltic states, Romania and Poland would be willing to pay for such bases.
«They’ll build them, they’ll pay for them,» Milley said.
The Baltic states are among the NATO members, which spend at least 2 percent their GDP on defence. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, all three Baltic states have pledged to increase their military spending even further.
The article originally appeared on LRT English: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1666135/us-general-nato-needs-more-permanent-bases-in-baltics-poland