NATO doubles response force  . NATO Secretary-General said that  number of response force will increase from 13 to 30 thousand.

"We are also responding to the behavior of a more assertive Russia in the East, we are doing so by doubling the size of the NATO Response Force from thirteen thousand to thirty thousand and the centre piece of this new NATO Response Force is a spearhead force which the need elements are able to move within as little as 48 hours."- said Jens Stoltenberg.