Chest pounding for peace
by digby
This is the kind of stuff that makes me pick up my copy of The Guns of August
The Very High Readiness Joint Task Force will include about 5,000 troops primarily from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, with maritime, special operations and aviation units. It’s meant to give the rest of the 30,000 service members in NATO’s response force time to mobilize.
The high-readiness force will take a major step this month with part one of Operation Noble Jump. Running from April 1 to April 10, the exercise includes missions in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, and marks the first time that the forces will practice rapid “orders to move,” NATO officials said.
This is also known as “saber-rattling”, which is just a slightly more civilized way of doing what gorillas do when they march around roaring and pounding their chests to psych out their rivals. Hey, sometimes it even works.
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