AURORA 17 Sweden allies ready to protect North
Aurora 17 was designed to increase the national and joint military capabilities necessary to protect the Swedish homeland and was the countrys largest military exercise in more than 20 years. More than 19, 000 personnel from Sweden participated in the exercise alongside an estimated 1, 500 personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, and the United States. The threeweeklong exercise, dubbed Aurora 17, involves a simulated attack from a feigned foreign power. It is carried o
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