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Over 4,000 NATO troops, including Romanian soldiers will deploy almost 600 pieces of defence equipment in the NOBLE JUMP 2021 Multinational Exercise, which will take place, May 19 - June 2, in Romania, the Romanian Defence Ministry (MApN) announced on Thursday.
According to a MApN press statement, the NOBLE JUMP 21 exercise, planned by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe (SHAPE) and led by the Joint Forces Command Naples, is the third stage of the NATO STEADFAST DEFENDER 21 exercise containing training sequences for NATO forces by deploying them in a very short time to Romania. Within the NOBLE JUMP 21 Exercise, the Headquarters Multinational Division South-East (HQ MND-SE) facilitates the deployment on the Romanian soil of the land component of Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF): six convoys belonging to the Turkish VJTF contingent crossed into Romania via the Giurgiu Border Crossing Point today, May 20, after transiting through Bulgaria
On May 6, the Council approved the participation of the United States, Canada and Norway in the Permanent Structured Cooperation’s (PESCO) Military Mobility project. The project was launched in 2018 and commits the participating states to synchronize their national activities to be able to face the emerging “ring of fire” in the European neighbourhood with a “seamless movement of troops.”
Naturally, PESCO’s projects stem from the members of the European Union converging on certain issues. The ability to construct wider partnerships provides the 25 participating states (Denmark and Malta are not participating) with a unique window of opportunity to address their own economic, military, and industrial blind spots in the defense sector.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold military exercises dubbed Steadfast Defender 21 which will involve up to 9,000 servicemen, will be held on
NATO’s southern wing, in particular
Romania, Hungary,
Bulgaria and Portugal, between May 20 and June 22 and will train redeployment of reinforcements from the US, Vice Chief of Staff at
NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Lieutenant General Brice Houdet told a briefing in Brussels on Thursday. The first phase of Steadfast Defender 2021 focuses on the rapid reinforcement of
NATO’s European Allies by North American forces. This phase is led by Joint Force Command Norfolk and will include a maritime live exercise with around 5,000 forces and 18 ships, including the UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth. Meanwhile, a table-top part of the exercise will take part in Ulm, Germany. This will train and test the ability of
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold military exercises dubbed Steadfast Defender 21 which will involve up to 9,000 servicemen, will be held on
NATO’s southern wing, in particular
Romania, Hungary,
Bulgaria and Portugal, between May 20 and June 22 and will train redeployment of reinforcements from the US, Vice Chief of Staff at
NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Lieutenant General Brice Houdet told a briefing in Brussels on Thursday. The first phase of Steadfast Defender 2021 focuses on the rapid reinforcement of
NATO’s European Allies by North American forces. This phase is led by Joint Force Command Norfolk and will include a maritime live exercise with around 5,000 forces and 18 ships, including the UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth. Meanwhile, a table-top part of the exercise will take part in Ulm, Germany. This will train and test the ability of
The past week has witnessed reports of increased Turkish military activity in Iraq and Syria as well as its intruding itself deeper into the war in Yemen. In all three cases Ankara has pitted itself against forces that are or can be seen to be pro-Iranian: Shiite parties in northern Iraq, the government of Syria and the Houthi-led government in Yemen.
Direct tensions between Turkey and Iran have been increasing since last year over the above three nations as well as the Turkish-directed attack on Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan (Turkey and Azerbaijan identify themselves as “one nation, two states’) and its aftermath.