NATO tests its ability to reinforce Europe in a crisis with massive trans-Atlantic operation-by Murray Brewster

It was the kind of exercise that used to happen regularly in the deepest, darkest depths of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union.

In fact, it has been almost four decades since NATO nations practiced as a group the organizational and logistically complex task of rapidly moving troops and equipment across a potentially hostile Atlantic Ocean to reinforce Europe.

Over the last two weeks, warships, submarines and aircraft belonging to the western military alliance have war-gamed methods to keep the sea lines of communication open in the event of hostilities in Europe.

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