WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Navy stands ready to respond to the changing demands of the European theater in response to concerns from its NATO counterparts, US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said on Friday.
"We will play a role in…responding to further demands that the [European] theater imposes, and I will be in close touch with our Navy commanders out there," Richardson said at an American Enterprise Institute conference.
He added that his European counterparts have raised "concern with this resurgent Russia, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean…the Black Sea, even the Caspian Sea."
