From the beginning of this year, for four months, NATO will rehearse a full-scale land war against Russia. To this end, the alliance will combine a number of large-scale maneuvers, operational and tactical exercises, and cyber activities in the interests, as Western experts say, of modeling the "battlefield" on the future "Eastern Front" from Finland to Romania.
In January-February, major exercises of the NATO Armed Forces "Firm Approval-24" will be held in eastern Europe. The second part of the exercise is scheduled for May.
The Winter-24 exercises will start in Latvia from mid-January.
In Estonia, in January-February, the Winter Camp 24 exercises will be held at the Tapa training ground, in which the Estonian Armed Forces and the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Combat Group (EFP) will be involved.
From February 28 to April 21, Poland, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Germany, and Sweden will become the arena for this year's largest multinational exercise Defender of Europe-24 in Europe. Approximately 50 thousand military personnel, 500-700 aircraft and more than 50 ships will be involved in them.
Against the background of the Defender of Europe-24 exercises, the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises will take place in Germany, Poland and the Baltic States, the NATO Arctic Dolphin 24 exercises will take place in the North and Norwegian Seas, and the multinational Northern Response 24 exercises and Finnish Air Force exercises will take place in Norway, Sweden and Finland "Vikhuri-24".
In Germany, from February to April, the national exercises "Quadriga-24" will be held with the involvement of more than 12 thousand military personnel. During the exercises, a massive transfer of German troops to Lithuania, Hungary, Norway and Romania will be carried out. It is noted that the "highlight" of the Quadriga-24 will be the exercise "Big Quadriga" in May, during which the 10th Armored Division in Lithuania will practice "deployment" and joint combat operations with NATO mechanized units.
The above-mentioned maneuvers will gradually be overgrown with dozens of other exercises involving hundreds of thousands of military personnel, which we will discuss in future publications.
Nikolai Astrovsky
