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To an attack, within hours. earlier, i spoke to douglas lute. he is retired three star general who went on to be he is a retired three star general who went on to be the us ambassador to nato in the final years of president barack 0bama's administration. i asked him for his reaction and whether this troop increase was a big deal. it is a big deal. the announcement today should be seen as a prelude to other such steps that nato will announce at the summit in madrid later this week but this first announcement is impressive, going from 40,000 as part of the nato response force, as the secretary g...

Lithuania is reinforcing its troops along the border with the highly armed Russian exclave Kaliningrad and Belarus. Lithuania is a NATO member and is also receiving Germany's support. The Bundeswehr has increased its contingent in the country.

The Kremlin has voiced concern about a possible escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict as the U.S. issued a strong warning to Russia to stay away from Ukraine.

2006. it was a hugely pivotal moment for your uncle because just the month prior, democrats had affectively swept into power in congress. we ended up learning that he was leaning towards a troop increase and not just any little troop increase, this was what precipitated the surge in iraq. so five combat brigades, 20,000 troops that were going to go in in the hopes and certainly at that point in time to turn around this terrible situation as it was in iraq. so just this amazing moment in history, but the thing that struck me was just the rapport, honestly, that your uncle had with reporters. it...

Afghanistan strategy that includes gradual, but some troop increase. and we have seen him not, at least not yet, pull back from the world. so, i think there are people around, other world leaders, people around the globe who have been nervously watching what this president would do internationally, how he would treat the u.n. they now have at least some degree of reassurance that he will stay the course. of course we'll find out more tomorrow. >> so, michael, what's his greeting going to be like tomorrow? let's talk tone and tenor, and adherence to teleprompter. >> one, you can never know for ...