On the first of the year the North Atlantic Treaty Organization transferred command of the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) to Turkey. On March 30 NATO turned over its current mission in Afghanistan to Turkish Brigadier General Selçuk Yurtsizoglu. In a phone conversation on April 1 U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and … Continue reading "NATO Appoints Turkey To Lead Drive Into the Middle East and Asia"
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