NATO prepares plan for huge number of casualties in case of WWIII scenario with Russia as German military says an invasion could happen this decade --NATO's top logistics chief said the bloc must be prepared for mass casualties | 25 Sept 2024 | NATO is developing mass evacuation and rescue plans in case of a future war with Russia, a senior general has declared. Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of NATO's logistics command, confirmed this week the security bloc is working to ensure it has the operational capability to extract large numbers of wounded troops from the front lines. The German general warned that, unlike allies' experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, an all-out war with Russia would likely see NATO incur heavy losses across a huge battlefield. What's more, Russia's air force and its vaunted rocket and missile stockpiles mean that medical evacuations via aircraft would be too risky -- a factor that could force NATO's troops to operate "hospital trains" to extract the wounded en masse... This year, the security bloc launched its greatest campaign of military drills since the Cold War. The Steadfast Defender 2024 suite of exercises saw some 90,000 troops from more than 30 allied and partner countries test their collective capabilities in land, air, sea, and cyber conflict theatres.