North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Joint Forces Command Brunssum
October 1, 2014
ANAKONDA, A MULTINATIONAL AND JOINT LIVE DEFENSIVE EXERCISE TAKES PLACE IN POLAND
Approximately 12,500 troops from Poland, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States will participate in a multi-national exercise called ‘Exercise Anakonda’. This bi-annual exercise began with an Opening Ceremony on 24th September in Warsaw.
This year, NATO will provide a NATO Exercise Integration Team (NEIT) which will observe and assess information and exercise procedures. This information will then be used to greatly develop future NATO Exercises and support such exercise frameworks.
The team leader for the NEIT, Brigadier General Torben Møller who is also the Director of Management at JFC Brunssum, has been designated as the Exercise Anakonda Deputy Commander.
“Exercise Anakonda 14 is a multinational effort led by the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command. This exercise will conduct joint defensive operations against a conventional attack from enemy forces’’ he said.
The aim of the exercise is also to create and rehearse conditions for any Allied Reinforcement and further enhance corporation with Polish non-military organizations’’ he added. Exercise Anakonda 14 has already provided important operational feedback, with interoperability already proving to be a success. In addition to monitoring this exercise, the NEIT will also begin to assess and prepare for Anakonda 16.
Story by: Joint Forces Command Brunssum Public Affairs Office.
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