The Pentagon’s Compelling Arguments
... BALTOPS maneuvers and the Saber Strike ground-based exercises in the Baltic countries and Poland in June 2015 along with the Noble Jump maneuvers for the landing and deployment... ... began back in summer 2014 and continues to this day with the goal of countering the Russian Federation “ following its military intervention in Ukraine .” Despite... ... frightening activity of NATO and the U.S. in the Baltic nations as well as Central and Eastern Europe, the ultimate goal is not war, but to maintain tensions and mistrust...