For NATO, that’s a problem. The Suwalki Gap, which some experts also call the “Suwalki Corridor,” is on the alliance’s territorial fringes, where European military might is at its thinnest.

Polish authorities have issued dire warnings that the Suwalki Gap, on Poland’s northern border between Russia and Belarus, is under threat. Locals say that is just election-related fear-mongering.

Still, such a base is necessary. The Suwalki Gap is not only NATO’s lifeline to the Baltic states, it is NATO’s best conventional deterrence against any future Russian aggression in the region.

A SENIOR US Army general has threatened to launch a “faster than ever” attack on a Russian WW3 flashpoint. General ...

If the Russians ever mobilized to seize control of Suwalki and cut the Baltics off from the rest of NATO, the U.S.-led battle group of 1,100 troops would be first responders.

World ‘Suwalki Gap’ key to NATO’s eastern flank security By AFP Published July 7, 2016 - ...

Since 2014, NATO strategists have focused much of their attention on a forty-mile-wide stretch of border between Poland and Lithuania called the Suwalki Gap (pronounced ‘Soo-vow-kee’).

The Suwalki Gap, which stretches about 100 kilometers along the Lithuanian-Polish border and lies sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has long been regarded as a ...

RUKLA, Lithuania - In one of the largest combined exercises in Lithuania, NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Groups maneuvered across the Suwalki Gap to demonstrate freedom of movement ...