{"id":306906,"date":"2025-04-16T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306906"},"modified":"2025-04-18T06:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T06:21:55","slug":"dutch-forces-ordered-to-be-ready-urgently-for-rapid-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306906","title":{"rendered":"Dutch forces ordered to be ready urgently for rapid deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lina Leskovec \u2013 Dutch Review April 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Over 76,000 Dutch defence employees received an \u2018Order of the Day\u2019 (<\/strong><em><strong>Dagorder<\/strong><\/em><strong>) last week, which outlined the military\u2019s newest goal \u2014<\/strong> <strong>to be ready for deployment faster. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The order was written by the Netherlands\u2019 highest military officer, Onno Eichelsheim, and is meant to \u201cemphasise urgency once again\u201d, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/nos.nl\/artikel\/2563044-commandant-nederlands-leger-versneld-in-gereedheid-brengen-voor-inzet\">NOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Civilians will notice a change, with more uniforms and military transport in the streets.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Preparing for action<\/h2>\n<p>Busy weeks are ahead for Dutch soldiers, with urgent calls for educating and training all units to the required level to be a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers must \u201cexamine their personal readiness\u201d, for example, checking if their vaccinations are in order, and what shape their basic skills are in.<\/p>\n<p>Purchasing drones, weapons, combat clothing and comms equipment is also picking up speed.<\/p>\n<p>Eichelsheim recognises that faster deployment is a challenge, but believes the times call for it.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why the acceleration?<\/h2>\n<p>The order mostly responds to Russian aggression in Ukraine, aimed at deterring Russia and ensuring the Netherlands stays on alert.<\/p>\n<p>Eichelsheim explains, \u201cnothing has changed drastically\u201d regarding the Russian threat, \u201cbut I have seen that we can accelerate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He outlines two possible scenarios for the Dutch army. First, if a ceasefire is reached between Russia and Ukraine, the Netherlands must be ready to help facilitate peace.<\/p>\n<p>The second, much gloomier scenario, would include an \u201coperational plan\u201d in case NATO territory is threatened \u2014 the concern here is mostly for the Baltic states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dutchreview.com\/news\/dutch-army-faster-deployment\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order follows recent Russian advances in Ukraine and is aimed at ensuring the Netherlands stays on alert. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":306907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306908,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306906\/revisions\/306908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}