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The Wall Street Journal ran an alarming article entitled “ The Russian Military Moves That Have Europe on Edge’s Edge ” Peter Bergen : Russia is beginning to redirect military capabilities away from the war with Ukraine .

He says the article focuses on Poland and the three small Baltic states, Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania .

The parallels with Ukraine are screamingly obvious, Bergen says.

Estonian government announced an increase in defense spending from 2.87 percent of GDP to an eye-popping 5.4 percent .

Peter Bergen : Estonia is already making a difference in crafting a deterrent to a Russian attack.

He says the real object of Sergey Naryshkin’s fevered pontification about World War III may well be found in a largely overlooked recent development: the Estonian armed forces took formal delivery of six HIMARS rocket systems.

James H. McGee retired in 2018 after nearly four decades as a national security and counter-terrorism professional.

Since retiring, McGee has begun a second career as a thriller writer.

His recent novel, Letter of Reprisal , tells the tale of a desperate mission to destroy a Chinese bioweapon facility hidden in the heart of the central African conflict region.