Hodges: "We have an excessive fear of Russian escalation"

Frederick Benjamin "Ben" Hodges III is a retired United States Army officer who served as commanding general, United States Army Europe (2014-2017).

He is a consultant for several companies on Europe, NATO, and the European Union, and he is co-author of the book, Future War and the Defence of Europe, published by Oxford University Press. 

Hodges has been Senior Advisor to the organization Human Rights First since June 2022 and also serves as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. He previously held the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis think-tank.

He was in Rīga to attend this year's Rīga Conference event and took time out to give Latvian Television his current geopolitical assessment which can be viewed above.

 

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