Background on “Atlantic Resolve” (2014-2023)

On December 9, 2015 Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander, U.S. Army Europe, spoke to an audience that “We have 30,000 American soldiers -- U.S. Army -- that are U.S. Army Europe. And so we work as part of U.S. European Command. We're the land component under U.S. European Command. General Breedlove is my boss in Europe… You can understand why our allies on the eastern flank of NATO -- particularly in the Baltic region -- are nervous, are uneasy. Large snap exercises without announcement, and so on -- these put a lot of pressure on them.

Then as you come down to Ukraine, of course -- really, Europe changed significantly with Russia's invasion of Crimea. Crimea is still sovereign -- is sovereign territory of Ukraine, but there are about 25,000 Russian soldiers there now, and the amount of air defense, anti-ship capabilities that are there -- the Black Sea fleet -- they have the ability to really disrupt access into the Black Sea by anybody that they wanted to…That's important to us for a variety of reasons, but especially because we have three allies -- Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey -- that are on the Black Sea, plus important partner country like Georgia, which is on the east end of the Black Sea.

And what's going on in the east end of Ukraine, the region known as the Donbass -- you know, this is an area where we really would like to see a -- a political solution there. I think you know we have about 400 American soldiers that are in Yavoriv training center, which is in the west end of Ukraine, near the city of Lviv. This is something that started back in the spring, in terms of training Ukrainian interior ministry troops. We trained three battalions of them using one of our airborne battalions out of the 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza. And then, finally, I depend on a reserve component. The National Guard with the state partnership program -- 22 states matched up against 21 different countries in Europe. It -- it extends our reach, if you will -- that 30,000 soldiers -- got to create the same effect we did when we used to have 300,000 soldiers, of assurance and deterrence. And so the National Guard, in a variety of ways, is very helpful there -- gives us access.

So that means that we have to show up, units have to assemble on very short notice and plug in and be interoperable. And again, that's what our exercise is about. Part of this is a technology thing that we keep working on, but part of its NATO standards, NATO procedures.”

Executive Order of July14,2023

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility. In furtherance of this operation, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 3,000 total members at any one time, of whom not more than 450 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve, as they deem necessary, and to terminate the service of those units and members ordered to active duty. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.”

On July 13, 2023, Zhang Jun said, that the bloc (NATO), portrays itself as the champion of the ‘rules-based international order,’ but “has repeatedly violated international law…, interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, provoked many wars, bombed diplomatic facilities, [and] killed innocent civilians.”

“If you want a good “be all you can be” recruitment advertisement for the military, it shouldn’t just be soldiers stoically saying lines. It ought to be something like showing a young man/woman working a dead-end job, looking soulless, and then it juxtaposes with them in the army clearly looking more confident, being a member of a team, and doing things that matter. At least that’s how you sell “being all you can be”

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