Military Exercises
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 06:14
US Special Operations forces in Africa are preparing for one of their biggest exercises of the year, a multinational event that spans several West African countries and serves as one of the premiere partnership events for US forces in Africa.
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 06:39
American soldiers will deploy to Ukraine this spring to begin training four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard.
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 08:07
Kazakhstan is conducting military drills simulating a response to a would-be separatist threat amid jitters over the Ukrainian crisis.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 06:59
The Russian military says Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan will hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea for the first time this summer. The five shoreline countries -- Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Iran -- have argued over the division of the Caspian and the right to its rich resources since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 06:33
President Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills in Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region earlier this month, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The drills, which mobilized 9,000 soldiers and more than 55 naval ships, were carried out to test the military's combat readiness in Kaliningrad, an exclave that borders NATO members Lithuania and Poland.
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 06:27
Russia’s large-scale artillery drills ongoing in North Caucasus and in breakaway South Ossetia is “yet another destructive step” directed against Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on December 6.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:57
Russia accused NATO on Monday of destabilizing northern Europe and the Baltics by carrying out drills there and announced new military exercises of its own, increasing tension over the Ukraine crisis.
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 06:59
Russia and China have committed to a pair of 2015 naval exercises as a sign of growing military cooperation between the two countries, Russia’s minister of defense said this week.
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 06:59
Russia and China have committed to a pair of 2015 naval exercises as a sign of growing military cooperation between the two countries, Russia’s minister of defense said this week.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 07:00
NATO's three-level (strategic, operational and tactical) Command Post Exercise/Computer Assisted Exercise (CPX/CAX) TRIDENT JUNCTURE 14 (TRJE 14) concluded today following nine days of intense training with Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) and its subordinate Component Commands.