ENHANCED FORWARD PRESENCE

The Heads of State and Governments of the Atlantic Alliance, in the last Varsovia Summit, have agreed to develop the Wales agreements putting in place a planned response that adapts to the challenges coming from the East and the South.
As part of the response and with the aim of increasing deterrents in the East Wing of the Alliance, NATO has designed an Enhanced Forward Presence, respecting the NATO-Russia Foundation Act, and which is classified by means of an allied territory approved at the Wales Summit and defined at the Varsovia Summit.
The Enhanced Forward Presence is of defensive and multinational nature, founded on voluntary contributions. It is inter-operational and will have the ability to deploy in the Baltic countries and Poland.
The eFP organisation has been established by 4 Battle Groups (BG) led by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. Spain’s participation will be in the BG led by Canada and deployed in Latvia.
The first contingent will be made up of members from the 11th ‘Extremadura’ Brigade (with headquarters in Badajoz and San Sebastián) and the Logistics Unit/Logistics Support NSE nº 61 (Valladolid).
The manoeuvre unit has been organised based on a Mechanised Battle Group made up of units with combat tanks, Leopardo 2E and Pizarro infantry combat vehicles as well as M-113 armoured personnel carriers, which allows the completion of the assigned missions.