May 09, 2017

Exercise reveals NATO vulnerabilities to Russian hybrid threats in North Atlantic

Featuring: Julianne Smith, and Jerry Hendrix

Source: Jane's Defence Weekly

Journalist: Nicholas Fiorenza

NATO is currently digesting the lessons of a tabletop exercise held at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington, DC, in February 2017 that confronted participants - including former senior alliance officials - with Russian asymmetric threats in the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) gap, Jane's has learned.

The two-day exercise, dubbed 'Forgotten Waters', involved 70 participants divided into teams representing France, NATO, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States dealing with increasingly escalatory steps by Russia, played by Western experts. Among the participants were former NATO deputy secretary general Alexander Vershbow and General Philip Breedlove (ret'd), former Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Read the full article on Jane's Defence Weekly.

Authors

  • Julianne Smith

    Former Adjunct Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program

    Julianne (“Julie”) Smith is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, where she coedits “Shadow Government.” She is also a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors, an adjunct senio...

  • Jerry Hendrix

    Former Senior Fellow and Director, Defense Program

    Jerry Hendrix was the Senior Fellow and the Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. A retired Captain in the United States Navy, his staff ...