NATO Weighs Response Force For East Flank.

The article reports on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) decision to create a military force for rapid deployment to assist in the defense of Eastern European countries from potential Russian aggression at a NATO summit in Wales. The role that Russia's 2014 intervention in Ukrainian social conflict plays in NATO's rapid-reaction force, including in regard to the U.S. President Barack Obama's perspective on the Russia's intervention, is discussed.