Coronavirus Fears Could Force US to Drop Out of NATO’s ‘Defender-Europe’ Drill
U.S. Army Soldiers arrive for exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 at the Nuremberg Aiprort, Germany, March 5, 2020. (U.S. Army/Capt. Ellen C. Brabo, 7th Army Training Command)
This week NATO has been busy preparing for its largest military exercise of the year. DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years with 20,000 soldiers deployed directly from the U.S. to Europe.