The statement is pure NATO public relations fluff. Member states will instead designate existing units as 'high alert' ones and change nothing else in their usual equipment and training. Units on high alert means that they fully manned with no one on vacation and with enough supplies ready to sustain weeks of battle. The troops are controlled by member states and I see no willingness by any of them to shoulder the costs that a real high alert status would have.
NATO does not have 300,000 troops to put on high alert. The new force model is meant to replace the NRF and "provide a larger pool of high readiness forces across domains, land, sea, air and cyber, which will be pre-assigned to specific plans for the defence of allies," a NATO official said.
Stoltenberg said NATO in future would have "well over 300,000" troops on high alert, compared to 40,000 troops that currently make up the alliance's existing quick reaction force, the NATO Response Force (NRF).
NATO to boost troops on high alert to over 300,000 -Stoltenberg BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will boost the number of troops on high alert by more than sevenfold to over 300,000, its secretary-general said on Monday, as allies prepared to adopt a new strategy describing Moscow as a direct threat four months into the Ukraine war. I had a good laugh when I read this nonsense:
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