article_snippet: States in the Baltic feel at particular risk as States in the Baltic share a border with Russia.
article_snippet: The convoy, part of a mission dubbed Atlantic Resolve, is designed to reassure members and demonstrate that Nato is prepared to defend Nato member states.
article_snippet: Ukraine, which had Russia Crimea territory annexed by Russia last year, and claims military intervention is ongoing, applied to join Nato in 2008, but the process was never completed.
article_snippet: Under the rules of Nato, any attack on a member state is regarded as an attack on all of them, a tenet credited with checking Soviet expansion during the Cold War.
article_snippet: Bringing the sunshine: The overt military operation is designed to reassure Eastern Europe that the U.S. is ready to act .
highlights_snippet: Countries in the region are nervous after Russian annexation of Crimea and military unrest in the area .
  
highlights_snippet: U.S. Army said that Nato maneuvers are 'a highly-visible demonstration of U.S. commitment' to the region .