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Commanding General, United States Army Europe - Ben Hodges

Is Nato in any fit state to respond to the potential threat from Putin’s Russia?

Presenter Stephen Sackur meets US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges in northern Poland, where forces from more than 20 Nato countries are involved in Operation Anaconda, the biggest military exercise on European soil since the end of the Cold War. So is Nato in any fit state to respond to the potential threat from Putin’s Russia?

(Photo: Lt Gen Ben Hodges, commander of US Army Europe, at a briefing in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 2015. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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