Force-extraction plans need bases and alliance fallbacks

Preparing a destination for withdrawing forces is proposed as sensible insurance against a country's territory becoming untenable. The Falkland Islands are suggested as a British fallback where facilities could be prepared, on the reasoning that an attacker would be unlikely to capture both Britain and those islands. Countries without distant possessions need arrangements with allies about where their forces could go. Sweden and Finland's entry into NATO provides an example of greater strategic depth for Baltic allies. Nearby allied territory gives withdrawing forces somewhere accessible from which they can continue supporting the defence of their own countries.