Saturday, April 10, 2021
Arctic Littoral Strike: Marines, Norwegian Military Conduct Exercise in Northern Norway (Article)
SETERMOEN, Norway – U.S. Marines and Sailors with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 21.1 (MRF-E) enhanced their warfighting ability above the Arctic Circle during exercise Arctic Littoral Strike in Northern Norway from March 11-31, 2021.
“This exercise demonstrated the battalion’s capability to operate inside actively contested maritime spaces, in this case arctic littoral spaces, and to provide support to joint fleet operations,†said Lt. Col. Ryan Gordinier, the MRF-E battalion commander.
“The Marine Corps has demonstrated an interest in developing expeditionary advance basing capabilities in the Pacific, and we took advantage of the opportunity to exercise those concepts in the Arctic.†Exercise Arctic Littoral Strike enabled elements from MRF-E 21.1 to experiment with emerging defense concepts and to confront the challenges of anti-access, area-denial capabilities posed by a notional peer adversary.
https://www.snafu-solomon.com/2021/04/arctic-littoral-strike-marines_10.html
