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National Exercises and Activities

Current as of June 6, 2025

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AFRICAN LION

African Lion is an all domain, multi-national exercise in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Ghana linked to EUCOM’s DEFENDER series exercise to counter GPC malign activity in North Africa and southern Europe and increase interoperability between U.S., African, and international partners to defend the theater from adversary military aggression.

April 30  -  June 29Morocco, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia
ARCTIC CHALLENGE 25

Arctic Challenge 25 is a multinational air exercise. The Arctic Challenge Exercise is part of the NORDEFCO cooperation between Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Their Air Forces regularly carry out combined air combat-related Cross Border Training operated from their home bases. The purpose is for the three Nordic nations to practice together and across their countries' borders.

May 26  - 
 June14
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark
POLARIS 25

POLARIS is a major operational exercise meant to prepare forces in all maritime domains for a high-intensity engagement.

May 26 -  June 15France, Atlantic Ocean
DEFENDER EUROPE 25

Defender Europe 25 is a deployment exercise of land forces from North America to the USEUCOM Area Of Responsibility and the Joint Reception Staging Onward Movement and Integration (JRSOI) of those forces.

June 1 - 30 Southern Europe
BALTOPS 25

Baltops 25 is a multinational Maritime exercise designed to improve US/NATO operational capacity, capability and interoperability to include conducting multinational training with NATO allies. Secondarily, BALTOPS postures USEUCOM forces to support NATO, fosters Allied & Partner interoperability to deter regional aggression and nurtures strategic relationships. The exercise sustain and maintains US/NATO operational access and global freedom of action.

June 3 - 21 Germany, Baltic Sea
SEA BREEZE

Sea Breeze is a multinational exercise in support of Partnership for Peace, US-Ukrainian sponsored Maritime field training exercise (FTX) with a focus on interoperability and maritime and littoral security, safety and stability operations.


June 15  -  July 15
Scotland
AGILE SPIRIT

Agile Spirit is a EUCOM scheduled, USAREUR-AF directed and led regional joint field training and command post exercise co-led by participating host nations that strengthens regional security cooperation, builds military capacity, integrates innovations, and fosters interoperability in NATO and with participating partners.

June 15 -  August 15Georgia
BREEZE 25

Bulgarian-led maritime exercise in the Black Sea. LIVEX to improve operational and tactical interoperability of participating units and commands to enhance interagency cooperation in a multi-threat environment and to facilitate evaluation of the Bulgarian Navy declared to NATO units.

July 10 - 19 Bulgaria, Black Sea
SANDY COAST

Naval Mine Warfare, Harbour Protection as well as Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS) exercise.

August 18 - 29 Belgium, Netherlands
GRAND EAGLE 25

Reinforcement of Forward Land Forces, Lithuania. 

August 18  - September 15 Lithuania, Germany
NORTHERN COASTS

Northern Coasts 25 is a multinational invitation exercise series for NATO allies, EU and Partnership for Peace countries. The exercise has been conducted annually in the Baltic Sea area since 2007.

August 29 -  September 12Germany
NAMEJS

Combined exercise to train comprehensive national and NATO plans for defence of Latvia. Command Post Exercise partly organised in close cooperation with Multinational Division North (MNDN).

September 8 - October 19Latvia
MARE APERTO II

Italian national maritime exercise. The focus is on improving the operational and combat readiness of participating assets through advanced training. Key training events include anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-air warfare (AAW), electronic warfare (EW), seamanship, Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO), amphibious operations, Naval Gun Fire (NGF) and Close Air Support (CAS).

October 1 - 31 Italy
POSEIDON

Maritime LIVEX to improve tactical level planning of Mine Countermeasures operations, and to enhance interoperability, cooperation and mutual understanding of participating units and commands.

October 6 - 17 Romania
THUNDER STORM

Thunder Storm is centred on Lithuanian defence plans, focusing on the training ability to plan and conduct state defence and NATO article 5 operations together with allied forces, exercising the whole spectrum of operations.

October 10 - 31 Lithuania
NIRIIS

Greek-led maritime exercise.aimed to improve combined combat capability and increase operational capacity while providing a realistic training environment where participants enhance their knowledge and skills regarding crisis response operations and interoperability between units.


2 - 10 NovemberGreece

LAILAPS 2-25

Maritime LIVEX exercise to enhance operational readiness and interoperability among participating forces including both Combat Enhancement Training (CET) and Force Integration Training (FIT) and tactical phase.

 December 8 - 12Greece

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