Europe’s secret Plan B to replace NATO

Soldiers of the “Black Jack” brigade ritually furled and packed their unit’s colours in Fort Hood, Texas, in early May, as the tank unit’s 4,000 troops prepared to deploy to Poland to help defend NATO against the Russian threat. “When an armoured brigade combat team deploys forward, it sends a clear and unmistakable signal,” said General Thomas Feltey, the division’s commander, at the ceremony. Less than two weeks later America sent the opposite signal: the deployment was scrapped. It was the second time…