Last year Washington launched the world's first multinational strategic airlift operation at the Papa Air Base in Hungary.
The U.S. Army's Task Force East operates out of Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu Airfield and Babadag Training Area and Bulgaria's Novo Selo Training Range.
The U.S. continues to occupy the almost 1,000-acre Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.
Shifting American nuclear bombs from NATO air bases in other parts of Europe to ones in the east like Lithuania's Siauliai, Estonia's Amari, Poland's Swidwin, Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu and Bulgaria's Graf Ignatievo and Bezmer would be the simplest matter in the world assuming it hasn't already been done. There would be less (which is to say no) publicity than that which accompanied CIA "black sites" in Lithuania, Poland, Romania and who knows where else on the territory of new NATO states.
A day never passes without U.S. warplanes flying over and warships visiting ports in Eastern Europe, without the Pentagon conducting military training and exercises including live-fire drills and full-scale war games in the region. [3]
Last month the U.S. participated in the Northern Coasts exercise in the Baltic Sea and the Jackal Stone 10 multinational military exercise in Lithuania and Poland, deploying USS Mount Whitney, flagship of the Mediterranean Sea-based Sixth Fleet, for the latter.
Throughout this month U.S. Special Operations Command is conducting training exercises in Hohenfels, Germany with troops from the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Poland "to seamlessly integrate on the battlefield" in Afghanistan.
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