ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

More than 6,000 U.S. and Polish soldiers will participate in a June exercise marking the U.S. Army’s gradual return to large-scale training exercises amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The exercise, named Allied Spirit, was originally scheduled for May, and it was to be linked with Defender-Europe 2020, the Army’s largest exercise in Europe in decades. Defender-Europe was largely canceled because of the pandemic.

March 29, 2017

The Army would need 15 armored brigade combat teams—five more than currently envisioned for the force—to confront the growing Russian threat to the Baltics region while maintaining its other operational commitments elsewhere, a defense expert told Congress.