US Carrier Strike Group Put Under NATO Command ‘For The First Time in Decades’

patrick.goodenough | January 24, 2022
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NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the U.S. had placed a full aircraft carrier strike group -- the Harry S. Truman group in the Mediterranean -- under NATO command “for the first time in decades.” He referred to it in the context of NATO allies “stepping up” in the face of the current Russian threat, although the Pentagon says the exercises were “long planned.”

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