“We will assess what we have to do to adapt North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to current and future challenges”, he said including cyberattacks and the blend of conventional and unconventional tactics commonly known as hybrid warfare. They told the broadcaster, “some buildings were damaged and civilians may have been hurt.”
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“This will have consequences for Russia itself which is rightly fearful of attacks…in coming days, the Russians will begin to suffer from casualties”, Mr Carter said, speaking at a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels on Thursday.
Carter said Russian aircraft came within a few miles of a USA drone.
The US Patriots were stationed in Gaziantep in 2013 with 300 U.S. troops as a counter-defence against possible missile attacks from Syria.
USA intelligence analysts portrayed the over-the-horizon barrage as Putin showing off his country’s new military capabilities for a domestic and worldwide audience, not for their effectiveness in Syria’s civil war. A week later, cruise missiles were used as well. Russian Federation has now stepped into the ring launching air strikes on targets and using sophisticated weaponry.
Unnamed US officials told CNN the missiles had crashed in Iran, a claim the U.S. State Department later said it could not confirm.
In September 2014, the Navy launched 47 Tomahawk cruise missiles from warships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea at targets in Syria.
Carter said he wants the USA and Russian Federation to coordinate their operations in the region only to avoid possible collisions in Syria’s airspace.
“He literally invited Putin in back when he drew the red line”, Christie said, invoking a decision the president made to backtrack and not strike Syria in 2013.
Moscow has dramatically stepped up its nine-day-old air war against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, with heavy bombing by warplanes and cruise missile strikes from the Caspian Sea. But the more mainstream Iranian Fars News Service said USA officials’ reports on the missile crashes were “psychological operations by the US against Moscow”. Our Defense Secretary is criticizing the Russian strategy, but where is ours?
The Russian defence ministry posted a graphic on its website on Wednesday showing 26 missiles overflying Iran and Iraq before striking inside Syria. Close ties between Russian Federation and Syria go a few way to explaining the action, and in particular Russia’s desire to protect its Mediterranean port at Tartus.
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The high precision strikes might have been “unpleasant and surprising for our colleagues in the Pentagon”, but the fact is that “the missiles launched from the ships hit their targets,” he said.
