NATO Official: European Armies Lack Sufficient Personnel

A senior NATO commander said European armies are facing a shortage of personnel.

A senior commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced that the armies of European countries are facing a shortage of manpower.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, quoted by Rianavosti, the supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, Alexos Grinkevich, said: European countries' armies are facing the problem of manpower shortage.

Grinkevich added: The difficulty of this issue is that it is not possible to create a large army in the blink of an eye, and solving this problem requires a change in the laws related to conscription; Changes that are already underway in some European countries.

These statements are made in a situation where the European countries of NATO are facing increasing pressure to strengthen their defense capabilities and increase their share in the provision of forces and military equipment of this alliance. NATO officials have repeatedly emphasized the need to increase Europe's military capacity and reduce the continent's dependence on American capabilities.