{"id":38996,"date":"2018-10-11T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38996"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:55:39","slug":"trident-juncture-2018-is-about-to-kick-off-natos-big-war-games-near-russias-borders-never-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38996","title":{"rendered":"Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO\u2019s Big War Games Near Russia\u2019s Borders Never End"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO\u2019s Big War Games Near Russia\u2019s Borders Never End<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The NATO-led Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18) exercise that is\u00a0to be held<\/a>\u00a0in October and November is the largest massive and coordinated show of force\u00a0since the\u00a0Cold War. It will primarily be hosted by Norway. The training event will largely take place in the central and eastern parts of this Nordic country that neighbors Russia, as well as over the skies and in the seas of \u00a0Sweden<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Finland<\/a>. The maritime component will be conducted in the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and in the Baltic Sea. TRJE18-related activities will take place as far away as Iceland. Russia has been\u00a0invited<\/a>\u00a0to send observers to watch the exercise.<\/p>\n

Actually, TRJE18 consists of three parts. The deployment phase has been underway since August. A live field exercise will be held from October 25 to November 7 with six brigades fighting each other right in the heart of Norway. A command post training event will be conducted from November 13 to November 24.<\/p>\n

The drill will involve 45,000 participants from over 30 nations, including 10,000 rolling or tracked vehicles, 150 aircraft, and 60 ships. The main goal is to test the ability of NATO\u2019s new Response Force to rapidly deploy. Norway will evaluate its ability to receive and handle reinforcements sent by its allies.<\/p>\n

There are 700 US Marines stationed in Norway. That\u2019s not a huge force, but as Adm. James Foggo, who heads all US naval forces in Europe and Africa and commands the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples put it,\u00a0\u201cthat\u2019s 300 Marines today. 3,000 Marines tomorrow.\u201d<\/em> The American pre-positioned forward storage sites in Norway, a\u00a0complex of caves<\/a>,\u00a0have been upgraded to store weapons and equipment for roughly 15,000 Marines. That Scandinavian country\u00a0has become<\/a>\u00a0the source of a threat to Russia\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n

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Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO\u2019s Big War Games Near Russia\u2019s Borders Never End The NATO-led Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18) exercise that is\u00a0to be held\u00a0in October and November is the largest massive and coordinated show of force\u00a0since the\u00a0Cold War. It will primarily be hosted by Norway. The training event will largely take […]<\/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":[15296,553,694,8203,22235,827,4332],"class_list":["post-38996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-trident-juncture","tag-united-states","tag-war-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996","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=38996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38997,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996\/revisions\/38997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}