US and NATO military conducting mock battles across Europe

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U.S. forces, along with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and ”partner”countries, conducted multiple military drills and live-fire exercises across Europe this month, from Sweden to Greece, the Department of Defense said Wednesday in a press release.

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“Each of these exercises and operations dramatically demonstrated our collective conventional and special operations abilities to defend all regions of Europe,” US European Command Chief of Planning Jeffrey Rathbun said in the statement.

In Sweden, the United States Special Operations Command in Europe trained together with the Swedish Armed Forces and National Guard.

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Backed by the US Navy destroyer Ross, a 16-day exercise was developed that focused on possible ”regional contingencies” in the Baltic Sea, according to the statement.

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