It will end with a "Demonstration Day" in mid-May Noble Jump, the maxi NATO military exercise in Sardinia which is involving hundreds of land vehicles, including Leopard 2 tanks, ships and aircraft from 23 nations, all three of the Italian armed forces in the field and 10,000 soldiers and civilians.
A day, as the name suggests, of demonstrations by the joint allied powers - together with the Italian soldiers also the allies of Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg - to test the readiness of NATO's combat capabilities in a scenario of war.
Joint Stars will start on 8 May, another exercise on the island in which more than 4,000 soldiers and about 900 land, air and naval vehicles will be involved. It will be the most important joint defense exercise, planned by the joint joint operational command, which will see men and means engaged in the simulation of air, land and sea space defense operations, in cyber and space security, in Nbcr defense and in the contrast to the threats deriving from the most modern technologies used in the manufacture of underwater or aerial drones.
For the moment there are no new sit-ins or demonstrations planned by antimilitarists, but the "no war" movement is always attracting new converts. Yesterday around the military air base of Decimomannu there were moments of tension with the police for a procession organized by "Sardinnia aresti" which, in conjunction with Sa die de sa Sardigna, was getting too close to the area protected by walls and Barbed wire. Water cannons and tear gas were also used to drive away the approximately 250 demonstrators.
“Enough of the drills. Sardinia hosts about 65% of the Italian military property and has on its soil the two largest polygons in Europe, in the areas of Teulada and Quirra, which for decades have done nothing but devastate our territories, sometimes irreparably". , declares Danilo Lampis of Sardinia calls Sardinia.
The objective of the NATO troops is to test the "Very hight readiness joint task force", the so-called "spearhead" of the allied arsenal born in 2014 in the wake of the annexation of Crimea by Russia and in course of reorganization after the Madrid summit. And replace the current Allied Response Force with a new model that provides the ability to deploy more than 100,000 soldiers in a maximum of 10 days.
(Unioneonline/D)
