text:  Jim Townsend is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy, and also now with the Scowcroft Center. If you're going to deter, you've got to show you mean business. And the adversary needs to know that you've got the capability, capacity, political will, and that's what NATO is rebuilding now. And they have got to procure the readiness, the training, the equipment, all that makes your force a fighting force.