NATO flexes its muscles on Putin's doorstep: Alliance sends 30,000 troops, 50 vessels and 200 aircraft to Russian-neighbour Norway for military drills NATO has sent 30,000 troops, 50 vessels and 200 aircraft to Norway, a country neighbouring Russia The forces will carry out a series of drills in the country that shares almost 200km of land border with Russia The drills were planned before Vladim..