Trojan Footprint
By Jeff Kouba
Trojan Footprint, a Special Forces joint exercise, began this week. An annual exercise, this is the largest one to date.
Trojan Footprint (TFP) 22 is set to begin May 2 and conclude May 13, with U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) proactively working and training together with NATO allies and European partners across Southeastern Europe, the Baltics and the Black Sea Region to demonstrate their collective military readiness to deploy and respond to any crisis that may arise.
This year’s TFP includes more than 3,300 participants from 30 nations, doubling in size from the previous year and making it the largest SOCEUR exercise to date. Land, air, and sea operations for Trojan Footprint 22 will occur across Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The two-week exercise also increases integration with conventional forces and will highlight the professional skillsets of land, air, and sea units to respond to hybrid threats through discreet theatre entry and exit. As an exercise in coalition building, TFP 22 is focused on cultivating trust and developing lasting relationships that will promote peace and stability throughout Europe.
As this tweet from US SOCEUR shows, it covers ground from the Baltic to the Med, a suspiciously united front facing neighbors to the east.
Our civilization may be crumbling, eaten away from within, but while we can still put an talented, determined, capable military in the field, we’re not done yet. Go get ’em.
May 4th, 2022 at 6:17 am
In other words, Pedo Joe is about to send U.S. troops into Ukraine and use the lie that they are supporting NATO. Obama has decreed through puppet boy that the deep state’s bio labs and money laundering operations, must be protected at all costs.
May 4th, 2022 at 8:33 am
In the meantime, Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC – and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US) Yea, REALLY serious!
May 4th, 2022 at 8:36 am
but while we can still put an talented, determined, capable military in the field,
Jeff, do you REALLY believe this drivel? There maybe some talented, determined and capable operators out there, but military? Surely you jest US and EU woke generals are capable of leading anything but a circlejerk.
May 4th, 2022 at 10:17 am
I’ve always found Russia’s definition of defense to be utterly bizarre: they seem to define their security by their ability to invade other nations. Most countries would define their security as being able to defend themselves from invasion. Countries joining NATO doesn’t mean that there’s some piece of Russian territory that’s at risk of being taken over, just that now Russia will find it much harder to attack these countries.
Why can’t Russia just be a normal country and not invade its neighbors, is that too much to ask for?
May 4th, 2022 at 10:50 am
“Most countries would define their security as being able to defend themselves from invasion.”
Yes, exactly correct. That’s why we invaded Vietnam, and Grenada, and provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis . . . we were engaged in a pre-emptive defense against possible future invasion. And why we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, to defend against possible future attacks. And why we’re funding bio-research labs in Ukraine, to find cures for bio-weapons in case of possible future attack. And seeking to expand NATO farther eastward, to protect the continential United States in case of possible future attack.
We have no offensive intentions at all, we’re purely defensive in all regards.
Just like . . . .
May 4th, 2022 at 10:55 am
Somehow 3300 people from 30 nations reminds me of Austria-Hungary’s mobilization at the start of World War One, when they issued marching orders in something like 15 languages. So what’s going on is most likely a test of test of the networks through which action will be coordinated, not actual combat drills.
Regarding Russia, countries that have been invaded a lot often feel the need to have a buffer zone so that somebody else suffers before their own people. That’s the logic the Soviet Union used when taking the Kuril Islands, part of Manchuria, and the eastern portion of Poland, and was of course part of the logic Hitler used when taking the Sudetenland and Austria.
May 4th, 2022 at 11:04 am
Joe, gonna correct you on some history here. First of all, we did not “invade” Vietnam. We first sent advisors, and then troops, to try to defend a government from the Viet Cong. We did not provoke the Cuban missile crisis; that was provoked when the Soviets placed missile launchers in plain sight on Cuba.
Where on earth are you getting your history? The Worker’s Weekly World or something?