{"id":57560,"date":"2025-11-21T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-plays-smaller-role-in-nato-exercise-designed-to-counter-evolving-russian-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:58:42","slug":"u-s-plays-smaller-role-in-nato-exercise-designed-to-counter-evolving-russian-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-plays-smaller-role-in-nato-exercise-designed-to-counter-evolving-russian-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. plays smaller role in NATO exercise designed to counter evolving Russian threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Aboard a NATO warship off the coast of Italy, U.S. allies are conducting a military exercise, simulating what might occur in the event of a possible conflict with Russia. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A CBS News crew on Thursday was flown out by helicopter with the Italian military to HMS Prince of Wales, a British aircraft carrier deployed in the Mediterranean Sea, where there are 26 American-made F-35 fighter jets. <\/p>\n<p>The military exercise, Neptune Strike, brings the U.S. together with nine of its allies \u2014 including the United Kingdom, Greece, Poland and Turkey \u2014 practicing long-range strikes on NATO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/en\/what-we-do\/deterrence-and-defence\/strengthening-natos-eastern-flank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eastern flank<\/a>, hitting training grounds close to Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The focus of the exercise is to defend critical waterways like the Mediterranean, which connects Europe with Africa and the Middle East, and carries about 30% of the world&#8217;s oil traffic, according to the United Nations. <\/p>\n<p>The exercise comes <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-nato-allies-russia-hybrid-warfare-europe-cbs-sees-baltic-sea-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">as Russia tests<\/a><\/span> the U.S.-led alliance with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/romania-scrambles-fighter-jets-after-reporting-drone-incursion-russia-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">frequent incursions<\/a><\/span> into <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poland-russia-trump-putin-ukraine-war-tusk-says-drones-not-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">NATO airspace<\/a><\/span> using drones and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russians-violated-estonian-airspace-12-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fighter jets<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see those activities as intended to stress the alliance,&#8221; Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, head of U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied commander Europe, told CBS News. <\/p>\n<p>Grynkewich, a four-star general in charge of about 80,000 U.S. troops, has said that NATO needs to be prepared to fight concurrent conflicts with Russia and China by 2027. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, we don&#8217;t hope for that outcome, but you want to be ready for any contingency,&#8221; Grynkewich told CBS News, adding that war with one or both of the two superpowers is &#8220;absolutely not&#8221; inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our main goal is to deter that conflict from ever happening,&#8221; Grynkewich said. <\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. has taken part in previous iterations of the military exercise, this year&#8217;s U.S. footprint was smaller as allied nations are pressed by the Trump administration <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-nato-article-5-collective-defense-europe-doubt-us-treaty-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">to put more<\/a><\/span> into European defense. Going back to his first term, Mr. Trump has repeatedly pushed for NATO members to boost their defense spending to at least 5% of their respective GDPs. <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-us-troop-drawdown-europe-nato-concern-republican-rebuke\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">also announced<\/a><\/span> last month that it was reducing the number of U.S. troops deployed in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>That said, B-52s from the U.S. Air Force&#8217;s Bomber Task Force were deployed for this year&#8217;s exercise. <\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has drawn it into a military quagmire, costing hundreds of thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The war in Ukraine has taught us that now, more than ever, the NATO alliance is incredibly important,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Mike Carty, a British fighter pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Air Force. <\/p>\n<p>Carty said NATO is watching and learning from what is happening in Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An element of that was designed to destabilize Europe, and destabilize NATO,&#8221; Carty said of Russia&#8217;s invasion. <\/p>\n<p>But Carty argues that the attack &#8220;has had the opposite effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grynkewich told CBS News that NATO is ready to fight a war today if it has to, but that readiness is the best deterrent for any adversary.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async 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