World Defence News, By NavyRecognition: While tensions with Iran and Syria are rising on the international scene, NATO members are conducting (or will soon conduct) several large scale "joint" military maneuvers. These maneuvers have two roles: Send a strong message to the regimes and keep NATO armies, navies and air forces ready to work together should they intervene. In February alone, no less than five
such multi-nation exercises are planned, each being focused in a field that could well prove decisive or fundamental should a conflict erupt: Source: World Defence News
