The Alliance has been preparing to stage its biggest military exercise in decades when it encountered a foe it was not apparently ready to face — the coronavirus. Now, the drill is at risk, while its true aim comes to the fore.
A large-scale exercise with a pompous name ‘Defender Europe 2020’ was expected to become the biggest one for the Alliance in a quarter of a century. Up to 20,000 US troops together with some 17,000 more soldiers from 17 other NATO members were scheduled to take part in the drill, which was about to be held Germany, Poland, and the Baltic states.
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