Scottish CND Slam ‘Strike Warrior’ Exercise
The bi-annual NATO war games are currently underway around Britain and Ireland. The Exercise usually codenamed ‘Joint Warrior’ is this year termed ‘Strike Warrior and involves a combination of warships, submarines, aircraft and land forces from a range of NATO countries.
A few days ago ahead of the Exercise Scottish CND expressed anger that the exercise was using Scotland as a ‘military playground’ and voiced environmental concerns.
In the past the ‘Joint Warrior’ series of exercises have been associated with deaths of marine mammals while life firing at Cape Wrath caused heath fire damage which it took the area almost a decade to recover from ecologically.
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This year’s iteration of Britain’s biannual Joint Warrior exercise in the Irish Sea is subsumed under another exercise, Strike Warrior 21, being used to prepare the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, the flagship of the Royal Navy, and its carrier strike group for deployment to the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Asia-Pacific region.
Exercise Joint Warrior, held in the spring and autumn every year, is described by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the largest military exercise in Europe and is organized jointly by the British army, navy and air force. It occurs off the northern and western coasts of Scotland in the Irish Sea. It is one of 95 NATO exercises scheduled for 2021 (113 were scheduled for last year), with 220 other national and multinational exercises conducted in conjunction with them.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth during her recent visit to Glen Mallan
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