US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US would announce new military commitments throughout the course of the Nato summit, including pledging to send two additional destroyers to Rota, Spain.
The US currently has four destroyers there and will increase that number to six, he said on Tuesday during a briefing with reporters on Air Force One en route to Spain. The US would detail additional commitments on Wednesday, Sullivan said.
As part of announcements of so-called force posture, Sullivan said the US would also commit additional troops to Nato’s eastern flank. He declined whether to say those forces would be permanent or rotational, but said it would “involve additional forces on the eastern flank in a steady state”.
Nato’s force posture announcements will have a special emphasis on the Baltics but will include commitments to other countries on the eastern flank, Sullivan said.
“By the end of the summit, what you will see is a more robust, more effective, more combat-credible, more capable, and more determined force posture to take account of a more acute and aggravated Russian threat,” he said.
In addition to force posture commitments the US and its allies will discuss funding for the alliance and a new guiding document or strategic concept that will no longer describe Russia as a strategic partner and will take China into account for the first time, he said.
US president Joe Biden will meet Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday as Nato tries to move forward the bids by Sweden and Finland to join the alliance.
The threat from China will also be a focus, with four Asia Pacific powers — Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea — in attendance. Biden will host a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, the first such gathering since 2017, and will mainly be focused on the threat from North Korea amid an extended period of intense nuclear testing.
This post has been updated to include newer comments from US national security adviser Jake Sullivan
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