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Eurosatory: Looking east

6th June 2016 - 12:00 GMT | by Tim Fish in London

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As Eurosatory 2016 kicks off, the main focus for militaries in Europe is what to do about Russia.

Since the last exhibition in 2014, Moscow has annexed the Crimea region and has caused instability and a ‘frozen’ conflict in other parts of eastern Ukraine.

Furthermore, the involvement of Russian forces in Syria, working closely with President Assad’s government troops, shows that Moscow’s new appetite for intervention has not been diminished.

NATO is extremely worried. As the US and major European powers have focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade or more, Russia has

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Tim Fish is a special correspondent for Shephard Media. Formerly the editor of Land Warfare …

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