{"id":185581,"date":"2019-03-22T07:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185581"},"modified":"2019-03-27T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:31:45","slug":"10000-troops-from-13-countries-arrive-in-the-uk-for-major-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185581","title":{"rendered":"10,000 troops from 13 countries arrive in the UK for major exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>gov.uk\/government\/news \u2013 March 14, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 10,000 military personnel, 35 warships, 5 submarines and 59 aircraft and helicopters from 13 countries will take part in Exercise Joint Warrior until 11 April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The aim of Joint Warrior is to allow the UK\u2019s Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and their allies to conduct joint operations involving different forces and units and against a range of current and future threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165731\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gavin-Williamson.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165731\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gavin-Williamson-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavin Williamson. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson MP said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The UK military is a partner of choice for its major international allies and a resolute force for peace around the world. The UK will not waver in continuing to work with its allies to protect our mutual interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Led by the UK, Joint Warrior allows key NATO allies to tackle complex warfare scenarios to ensure that the international community stands fit and ready to work to face any threat together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Although run by the UK, Joint Warrior is closely aligned to NATO training aims and is included in the NATO exercise programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Joint Warrior will take place across the UK:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Exercise will be controlled and directed from the Maritime Operations Centre at Scotland\u2019s largest military establishment, HM Naval Base Clyde, with a range of air, surface, sub-surface, sea control and maritime security roles being rehearsed off the West Coast of Scotland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Air units will coordinate with maritime and land forces, exercising Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), air defence, air mobility and attack. Aircraft will operate from RAF Lossiemouth, Prestwick and Stornoway airports as well as from RAF Leeming, RAF Coningsby, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Marham and RAF Brize Norton.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Land activity will focus on integrating with close air support at the Cape Wrath naval bombardment range and the RAF bombing range at Tain, supported by the RAF Spadeadam Electronic Warfare Training Range in Cumbria. There will be amphibious landings by Royal Marines at the MOD\u2019s Castlemartin range in Wales and possibly also in Dumfries and Galloway.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There following nations are taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Together these allies and partner nations will deploy 10,300 armed forces personnel (at Sea 6,500 personnel, Land 3,000 personnel and Air 800 personnel)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After an initial briefing weekend at HMNB Clyde, the exercise splits its participants into two opposing Task Forces starting in the Scottish Exercise Areas (water and airspace generally to the West of Scotland, particularly The Minches). As the exercise progresses elements of the Task Forces will progress south to conduct an amphibious exercise off the South West Coast of Wales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/10000-troops-from-13-countries-arrive-in-the-uk-for-major-exercise\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a coincidence that the drill will run just as the British Army will be on standby in case of internal unrest due to Brexit? After all: the authorities can\u2019t rely on British troops, especially if they have to shoot their own people <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185584,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185581\/revisions\/185584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}