Subscribe free to our newsletters via your
. 24/7 Space News .




SUPERPOWERS
Georgia launches joint drills with five NATO countries
by Staff Writers
Tbilisi (AFP) July 8, 2015


Georgian troops on Wednesday launched joint military exercises with United States marines and soldiers from four Eastern European NATO members, the pro-Western ex-Soviet nation's defence ministry said.

The drills dubbed "Agile Spirit 2015" are part of a "substantive package" of measures aimed at bringing Georgia -- which has long sought full NATO membership -- closer to the US-led alliance's standards, the ministry said in a statement.

"One of the priority areas of the package is the holding of NATO exercises on Georgian territory," the ministry said.

Georgia -- which lost a brief war with Moscow in 2008 -- has been rattled by Russia's seizure of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and alleged fuelling of a separatist conflict in the east of the country.

Some 220 US marines and platoon-sized Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Romanian units will hold the two-week exercises at the Vaziani base outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi with soldiers from the Georgian army's 4th mechanised brigade, according to the ministry.

Georgia's bid to join NATO and the European Union infuriated its former imperial master Russia, which bitterly opposes the alliance's expansion into former Soviet republics.

In August 2008 Georgia fought and lost a brief war with Russia over the Kremlin-backed separatist region of South Ossetia.

Just ahead of the war, NATO leaders agreed at a summit in Bucharest that Georgia would one day join the alliance, but did not put the country on a formal path to eventual membership.


Thanks for being here;
We need your help. The SpaceDaily news network continues to grow but revenues have never been harder to maintain.

With the rise of Ad Blockers, and Facebook - our traditional revenue sources via quality network advertising continues to decline. And unlike so many other news sites, we don't have a paywall - with those annoying usernames and passwords.

Our news coverage takes time and effort to publish 365 days a year.

If you find our news sites informative and useful then please consider becoming a regular supporter or for now make a one off contribution.
SpaceDaily Contributor
$5 Billed Once


credit card or paypal
SpaceDaily Monthly Supporter
$5 Billed Monthly


paypal only


.


Related Links
Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com






Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle








SUPERPOWERS
US to cut 40,000 soldiers from Army: official
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2015
The US Army is to cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years at home and abroad, a defense official said Tuesday, in a move that will raise doubts about its ability to fight wars. Under the cost-cutting plan, the Army will be down to 450,000 soldiers at the end of the 2017 budget year, even though in 2013 it argued in budgetary documents that going below 450,000 troops might ... read more


SUPERPOWERS
Russia to Land Space Vessel on Moon's Polar Region in 2019

Moon engulfed in permanent, lopsided dust cloud

Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls

Google Lunar X-Prize meets Yoda

SUPERPOWERS
Could This Become the First Mars Airplane

Curiosity rover back to work, studying rock-layer contact zone

Curiosity Mars Rover Studies Rock-Layer Contact Zone

Prandtl-m prototype could pave way for first plane on Mars

SUPERPOWERS
Docking Adapter Sets Stage for Commercial Crew Crew

Targeted LEDs could provide efficient lighting for plants grown in space

NASA Gears Up to Test Orion's Powerhouse

McCain Blows His Top Over US Inability to Abandon Russian Rocket Engines

SUPERPOWERS
Chinese earth station is for exclusively scientific and civilian purposes

Cooperation in satellite technology put Belgium, China to forefront

China set to bolster space, polar security

China's super "eye" to speed up space rendezvous

SUPERPOWERS
Relief as Russian cargo ship docks at space station

Loss of SpaceX Cargo Resupply Mission No Threat to ISS Crew Security

Russia launches Soyuz Progress with supplies for ISS

Russia Confirms Elimination of US On-Board Computer Failure at ISS

SUPERPOWERS
Licensed commercial spaceport to be built in Houston, Texas

More Fidelity for SpaceX In-Flight Abort Reduces Risk

Rocket Lab Announces World's First Commercial Launch Site

NovaWurks and Spaceflight Services set for payload test bed mission in 2017

SUPERPOWERS
Observing the birth of a planet

Precise ages of largest number of stars hosting planets ever measured

Can Planets Be Rejuvenated Around Dead Stars?

Spiral arms cradle baby terrestrial planets

SUPERPOWERS
Silica spiky screws could boost industrial coatings, additive manufacturing

New conductive ink for electronic apparel

Study: Violent video games offer stress release, but at a cost

Lower cost ultrasound degassing now possible in processing aluminum




The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.