CNN
Updated 10:15 AM ET, Thu February 18, 2016
Washington (CNN)Marines
are prepositioning battle tanks, artillery and logistics equipment
inside Norwegian caves as the U.S. pushes to station equipment near the
NATO-Russia frontier.
"Any gear
that is forward-deployed both reduces cost and speeds up our ability to
support operations in crisis, so we're able to fall in on gear that is
ready-to-go and respond to whatever that crisis may be," Col. William
Bentley, operations officer for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade,
said in a statement Friday on the Norwegian deployment that called the
caves classified.
The
deployment of new equipment to the Cold War-era caves comes amid
renewed tensions between NATO and Russia. Russia shares a 121.6-mile
long border with Norway. The border was heavily militarized during the
Cold War, and the Russian navy's Northern Fleet is in Murmansk, about
100 miles from the border.
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