This Fall’s Alliance Exercise Will Evaluate Deployment Speed

The NATO alliance is preparing for its largest exercise in more than a decade, focusing on how fast its forces can respond to a crisis, reports the Stars and Stripes.

More than 36,000 troops from 30 nations will participate in Exercise Trident Juncture this fall, planners said at a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday.

The training will take place in Italy, Portugal and Spain, including land forces, air exercises and maritime drills in the Atlantic and Mediterranean over a...