{"id":34866,"date":"2018-06-07T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34866"},"modified":"2018-06-07T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:14:42","slug":"nato-sabre-strike-exercise-scaring-russia-with-multiple-war-games-of-unparalleled-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34866","title":{"rendered":"NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last till June 15. The scope of the exercise has been steadily expanding with every year. It was\u00a011,000<\/a>\u00a0troops in 2017,\u00a09,000<\/a>\u00a0in 2016,\u00a06,000<\/a>\u00a0in 2015,\u00a04,700<\/a>\u00a0in 2014 and\u00a02,000<\/a>\u00a0in 2013 \u2013 that\u2019s how a relatively small drill turned into the regular deployment of substantial force in the proximity of Russia\u2019s borders. Moscow expressed its concern about it at the NATO-Russia Council\u2019s session held on May 31.<\/p>\n

The annual multination training event organized every year since 2010 is being held across the training areas in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Non-NATO countries taking part are Finland and Macedonia. Air assault landings are part of the scenario to hone the skills for launching offensive operations.<\/p>\n

Sabre Strike is timed with Swift Response airborne drill in Latvia to culminate on June 8. It involves 800 paratroopers from US, Latvia, Lithuania,\u00a0Israel<\/a>\u00a0and Poland.<\/p>\n

There will be more exercises held in 2018 near Russia\u2019s borders, including Trident Juncture, a really big one to take place in late October-early November to involve 35,000 troops from 30 nations along with 70 ships and about 130 aircraft and Anakonda organized by Poland in November. The latter will involve 100,000 servicemen, 5,000 vehicles, 150 aircraft and 45 warships. The scale is mind-boggling. One can imagine how much it costs! The Anakonda scenario includes preemptive strikes. If it\u2019s not an open preparation for war than what is? US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley believes it is.\u00a0According to<\/a>\u00a0him, \u201cHaving large-scale NATO forces in the Baltic States and Poland, as well as the lack of transparency \u2013 we see serious preparation for a great war.\u201d<\/em> He knows what is talking about.<\/p>\n

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NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15296,281,2150,553,694,20400,8203,862,4332],"class_list":["post-34866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-europe","tag-military-exercises","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sabre-strike","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-war","tag-war-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34867,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34866\/revisions\/34867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}