{"id":3413,"date":"2026-07-01T06:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:08:37","slug":"nato-joins-exercises-off-us-coast-even-as-it-loses-political-fight-in-trumps-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"NATO joins exercises off US coast, even as it loses political fight in Trump&#8217;s Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>OFF THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The warning came booming over the airwaves, in a voice unmistakably from the American south: &#8220;Warship! Get out of our waters!&#8221;<\/div><div>Norwegian Lieutenant Thomas Johannesen and his sailors \u200bwere preparing for a simulated boarding operation &#8212; a core mission for their NATO maritime unit. But with so many other war games happening in the area, the crew was picking up unrelated chatter from \u200ca nearby vessel.<\/div><div>Johannesen pivoted to a clear frequency before addressing the cargo ship in his sights. &#8220;Please stop your vessel and accept my boarding team,&#8221; he commanded.<\/div><div>Reuters gained exclusive access to the NATO exercise on Friday, one in a series of U.S.-hosted drills focused on defending the American homeland \u2013 and timed to coincide with the country\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/div><div>They were conducted at a perilous moment for NATO, with the Trump administration questioning the value of the 77-year-old alliance, reviewing its force posture in Europe and lashing out at long-time allies.<\/div><div>In an Oval Office meeting last week with NATO Secretary General Mark \u200bRutte, President Donald Trump admonished Britain, Spain, Germany and France for not doing more to support the U.S. war in Iran.<\/div><div>&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed with most of them,\u201d the president said.<\/div><div>David Cattler, a former NATO intelligence chief during Trump\u2019s first term, \u200bsaid the drills send a potent message about the ability and willingness of European nations to defend both sides of the Atlantic. Yet he doubted it would change minds at the \u2060Pentagon.<\/div><div>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to see,\u201d Cattler said.<\/div><h2>AN UNEASY ALLIANCE<\/h2><div>Trump has long believed the U.S. shoulders too much of the cost for European security, upsetting many decades of bipartisan support for NATO in Washington.<\/div><div>In an address at NATO headquarters in mid-June, \u200bDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a six-month Pentagon review that could lead to a drawdown of U.S. forces in Europe. He scorned &#8220;free riding&#8221; allies and said the alliance had to be a two-way street.<\/div><div>The conflict in Iran has sharpened tensions further. An internal Pentagon \u200bemail reported by Reuters in April floated suspending Spain from the alliance over its refusal to grant basing and overflight rights to the U.S. military during operations against Tehran.<\/div><div>But Spanish Marines joined the FLEETEX 250 exercises, carrying out ship-to-shore amphibious operations. French Marines also took part in drills, including on heavy machine guns, at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.<\/div><div>The U.S. military&#8217;s working-level embrace of allies is a sign that operational ties remain strong, experts say, transcending the political turbulence.<\/div><div>Drills like these are planned months or even years ahead of time. It is what militaries do \u200bto maintain readiness.<\/div><div>&#8220;Absent any intervention that would tell them to stop, they&#8217;re gonna continue to do it,&#8221; said Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marine officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/div><div>\u201cThis is just NATO being NATO,&#8221; he said.<\/div><h2>ALWAYS AT \u200bSEA<\/h2><div>Reuters spent the day with Standing NATO Maritime Group One, commanded by British Commodore Maryla Ingham, which includes frigates from Norway, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Turkey.<\/div><div>Reuters journalists reached the area by helicopter, piloted by the Canadian air force, touching down on the ship\u2019s flight \u200cdeck about 40 \u2060nautical miles from the North Carolina coastline.<\/div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><\/div><\/div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NATO maritime drills off U.S. East Coast\" 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June 26, 2026. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/div><div><button><span><svg><\/svg><\/span><\/button><button><span><svg><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div>Ingham said her unit is used to being at sea, but they are more accustomed to the icy northern waters near the Arctic and around the Baltics, where they are on alert for Russian activity.<\/div><div>&#8220;This area doesn&#8217;t require as much patrolling because there isn&#8217;t as much threat here,&#8221; Ingham said.<\/div><div>For Norwegian Stian Buunk, the Fridtjof Nansen&#8217;s commanding officer, it was his first time operating in American waters. His frigate is smaller than U.S. destroyers but can still pack a punch, with air defense and anti-ship missiles, torpedoes for hunting submarines, and a 76 mm deck gun.<\/div><div>Being close to the Navy&#8217;s 2nd Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, meant plenty of American assets were also available, Buunk said.<\/div><div>&#8220;We had anti-air warfare exercises two days ago \u200bwith F-18s. We had drones coming in,\u201d he recounted. \u201cAnd that \u200bmakes it very realistic.\u201d<\/div><div>One of Norway&#8217;s biggest contributions to \u2060NATO is its expertise in anti-submarine warfare. One drill involved mobilizing search-and-attack units to detect, track and expel a U.S. submarine.<\/div><div>Asked how his ship performed, Buunk tried to answer without gloating: &#8220;This ship is built for anti-submarine warfare,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&#8220;So, yah.&#8221;<\/div><div>Ingham said many European nations had other specializations required by NATO&#8217;s maritime forces. Belgium, for instance, is known for its anti-mine warfare capabilities.<\/div><div>&#8220;We are demonstrating \u200bboth the flexibility in the reach of our unit, but also our ability to seamlessly operate alongside the Americans,&#8221; said Ingham.<\/div><h2>&#8216;NO MORE GOAT&#8217;<\/h2><div>The boarding drill involved a case of \u200bsuspected smuggling by a cargo ship \u2060from Pyropia, a fictitious country.<\/div><div>The actual ship was a U.S. Navy training support vessel. Prior to boarding, Norwegian forces cleared their weapons to avoid any accidental discharge. Then Johannesen asked over the radio whether there were any weapons or animals on board.<\/div><div>&#8220;We had a goat. But we eat goat. So now, no more goat,&#8221; the U.S. ship responded.<\/div><div>Lieutenant Erik Aasen, a navigation officer who led the boarding team, said a search of the ship turned up rifles, four bags of narcotics and some cash (issued by the &#8220;National Bank of Garnet,&#8221; another made-up \u2060nation).<\/div><div>It was Aasen&#8217;s \u200bfirst boarding operation outside Norwegian waters, and he considered it a success. The highlight of the drills, he said, was getting the chance to work \u200bwith his American counterparts.<\/div><div>U.S. forces &#8220;have a lot of other experiences,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>If the Pentagon moves ahead with plans to reduce NATO\u2019s reliance on U.S. troops, it could mean fewer joint exercises in the future, experts said.<\/div><div>But Cancian was hopeful Congress would limit the impact, pointing to Republican pushback earlier this year when \u200bthe Pentagon halted the deployment of thousands of rotational forces to Poland and the Baltics.<\/div><div>&#8220;The president can do it, but you know there&#8217;s clearly a political price,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>(This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Johannesen, in paragraphs 2, 3 and 34)<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Phil Stewart\" class=\"wp-image-304\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5dcd2ab024ea7c24f626a231af654f53.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Phil Stewart<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Linkedin<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3398\">NATO allies have grown silent on rights concerns in Turkey<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3396\">Global AI wave revs up Asian factories, offsetting war-induced pain<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3394\">US lifts curbs on Anthropic\u2019s Fable, Mythos AI models<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters gained exclusive access to the NATO exercise, one in a series of U.S.-hosted drills focused on defending the American homeland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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