Eagle Guardian is a

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regional defence scheme drawn up before 2010 to defend the

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and

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against an attack by

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. The plan identifies ports in Poland and Germany to receive naval assault forces, as well as British and US warships. Nine NATO

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from the US, UK, Germany and Poland should carry out combat operations according to Article 5 of the NATO Charter in case of an armed aggression against the Baltic states or Poland.. See 10USNATO35 U.S. Mission to NATO documents that mention Eagle Guardian include: *09USNATO588, Demarche Delivered on NATO Contingency Planning, 16 December 2009 *09WARSAW1228, Poland could accept "Complementary" contingency, 18 December 2009 *09USNATO532, Lithuanian MOD Discusses NATO contingency planning, 19 November 2009 *10USNATO11, Polish Non-Paper on Baltic contingency planning, 11 January 2010 *10USNATO35, NATO agrees to do contingency planning for the Baltic States *10STATE 007810 An associated operations plan is 'Constant Guardian.' (10USNATO11)

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