BRUSSELS (AP) – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will begin its largest military exercise in decades next week, with some 90,000 people set to take part in months-long war games, with the alliance The aim is to demonstrate that the entire territory up to the border with China can be defended, a senior official said. he said Thursday.
The exercise took place as Russia's war with Ukraine reached a stalemate. NATO as an organization is not directly involved in the conflict, other than providing non-lethal support to Kiev, but many member states individually or collectively send arms and ammunition and provide military training.
In the months before President Vladimir Putin ordered the advance of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, NATO began strengthening security in Russia's eastern flank with Ukraine. This is the greatest strengthening of the alliance since the Cold War. This war game aims to prevent Russia from targeting member states.
The exercise, named Steadfast Defender 24, “demonstrates that NATO is capable of conducting and sustaining complex multi-domain operations in any situation, over several months and over thousands of kilometers, from the highlands of northern Europe to central and eastern Europe.” The organization, made up of 31 countries, said:
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Troops will be moving back and forth across Europe until the end of May in what NATO describes as “simulating new conflict scenarios with near-peer adversaries.” Under NATO's new defense plan, the main adversaries are Russia and terrorist organizations.
“This alliance will demonstrate the ability to strengthen the Euro-Atlantic region through transatlantic troop movement from North America,” U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO's supreme allied commander, told reporters. Ta.
Cavoli said this would demonstrate “our unity, our strength and our determination to protect each other.”
NATO Military Committee Chairman Adm. Rob Bauer said this is a “record number of forces that we can mobilize and exercise within that scale across the Alliance, across the oceans and from the United States to Europe.” Ta. ”
Bauer said the number of troops was a “huge change” compared to the exercise just a year ago. Sweden, which is scheduled to join NATO this year, will also participate.
British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said the London government would deploy 20,000 troops, supported by state-of-the-art fighter jets, reconnaissance planes, warships and submarines, many of them to Eastern Europe between February and June. He said it would be done.
