US Army Europe sets its posture as big Russian wargame looms
By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: July 20, 2017
STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. plans to deploy a Patriot missile battery, helicopters and a National Guard tank company to neutral Sweden in September to join one of the largest drills in that country in decades, but the move isn’t a direct response to Russia’s concurrent Zapad war game, U.S. Army Europe’s Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said.
Sweden’s Aurora 2017 exercise, which will involve about 20,000 troops, is the largest of the land exercises U.S. forces will be joining in September.
“They (Sweden) haven’t done something like this in 25, 30 years,” Hodges said in a recent interview.
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