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NATO Prepped For Largest Military Exercise Since Cold War

Thursday, August 27th, 2015

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NATO Prepped For Largest Military Exercise Since Cold War

NATO is set to launch the largest and most complex multi-nation military exercise since the end of the Cold War. The so-called Trident Juncture, set to kick off in mid-October, will involve 27 of the 28 NATO nations performing maneuver warfare, amphibious assault and other large-scale combat practice in Portugal, Spain and Italy.The alliance has not flexed its maneuver warfare muscle since its last large-scale multi-national exercise in 2002, French Air Force Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros, NATO supreme allied commander for…

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