#nato exercise

Starting next summer, the USAF will debut a new 2 week long exercise that will coincide with the multinational Talisman Sabre training event. The exercise will be called REFORPAC/Return of Forces to the Pacific, similar to Return of Forces to Germany/REFORGER during the Cold War.

US Military Plane Crashes In Norway During NATO Exercise

According to authorities, four US Marines were killed when their Osprey aircraft crashed in a Norwegian hamlet near the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine conflict.   According to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, they died in the crash on Friday night, March 18. Despite the fact that the reason was unknown, Norwegian police recorded harsh weather in the…

NATO Exercise Expected in Cyber Defense

Computer network defenses will be demonstrated during the forthcoming NATO Allied Command’s largest cyberdefense exercise. It is aimed at strengthening the ability of the military alliance to deter, defend and counter threats in and through cyberspace. The Cyber Coalition 20 event, operated v

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NATO launches massive war games in Poland, angering Russia

U.S., British and Polish soldiers parachuted to the ground in Poland on Tuesday in a mass show of force as NATO launched its biggest war games in Eastern Europe since the Cold War. The exercises — staged against the backdrop of a military and diplomatic standoff between Russia and the West — have rattled the Kremlin. NATO says the 10-day Anakonda maneuvers involving 31,000 troops are intended to shore up security on the alliance's eastern flank, where member states have been spooked by Russia's increasingly assertive actions.

There's no reason to be nervous. ... [The exercises were purely] defensive.

Ben Hodges, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe

The exercises are being held ahead of a NATO summit in Warsaw set to seal its largest revamp since the Cold War by deploying more troop rotations to Eastern European members deeply wary of Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Russia is building an army base near its border with Ukraine, the latest in a chain of new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO. Each side says it is only responding to steps taken by the other, but the buildup risks locking NATO and Russia into a spiral of measures and countermeasures from which it will be difficult to escape.

The exercises ... do not contribute to an atmosphere of trust and security. ... Unfortunately, we are still witnessing a deficit in mutual trust.