US military experts have warned that the Baltic Sea has become increasingly unsafe for the American military forces there because of the military encounters with Russia.
“Since the end of the Cold War, the US military has never really had to fight an enemy that had its own arsenal of precision-guided weapons,” Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the US Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, was quoted by The Hill as saying on Saturday.
“It was able to use air bases and other bases located fairly close to the borders of an enemy because there wasn't that much of an air and missile threat to those bases,” he noted. “That is changing.”