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The US and Philippines concluded MASA 2024, boosting Filipino Marines’ skills and solidifying the alliance in the Indo-Pacific.

Amid escalating Arctic tensions, Operation Polar Dagger unfolds as a decisive U.S. military mission, spotlighting coalition Special Operations Forces in a series of rigorous exercises across Alaska’s frigid expanse.

US special operations forces pass a gate on their way to their objective during Jackal Stone 2016

Embracing the future of warfare, drones are transforming military exercises globally by enhancing surveillance, reducing casualties, and optimizing decision-making, promising a revolution in battlefield tactics and warfighter safety.

What we thought was posturing has now escalated to live firing exercises.

Wales, United Kingdom—Exercise Cambrian Patrol: Is this the world’s toughest military exercise? Forty-eight hours. Over 40 miles across the arduous Brecon Beacons. Weather conditions: awful. Personal loads in the excess of 80 pounds. Who will win? Did I mention that Cambrian Patrol is an unofficial race? The annual exercise is organised by the 160th Infantry […]

Estonia is the site of a large international military exercise involving more than 13,000 troops from 16 countries which kicked off on May 2. The exercise, dubbed Siil (Hedgehog) is scheduled to last until May 14 and is the largest such drill to be held in the Baltic country since it regained independence from the […]

countries are justifiably nervous with the news that the Russian-Belarussian military joint strategic level exercises Zapad-2017 (“West-2017”) begin today, September 14 across the Russian’s Kaliningrad western military district and Belarus. The Russians have used large exercises such as this, in the past to preposition troops and equipment before engaging in offensive operations, such as Georgia […]

The government of Jordan with the cooperation of the United States is hosting the annual joint training exercise “Eager Lion” which will take place over the next 11 days. During a press conference at the Joint Special Operations Command, Director of Joint Military Training at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) Brig. Gen. Khaled Shraah […]

If natural disasters often prompt countries to put their differences aside and work together, so does training for them. That kind of cooperation was on display during a joint disaster relief exercise held by the United States and China in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming last week. Around 200 soldiers trained for several days […]

Heads of state from across the Muslim world gathered in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for the conclusion of a nearly three-week-long counter-terrorism military exercise that included 20 participating countries. Saudi state television carried images of tanks firing missiles and helicopters circling overhead in what local media have called the largest exercise ever held in the Middle East in terms […]