Poland hosts the largest military exercise in its 27 years history

On June 6, the largest military exercise carried out in Poland within 27 years, one of U.S. Army Europe’s premier multinational training events, dubbed "Anakonda-16", has successfully started in Warsaw. Anakonda 2016 brought more than 30,000 service members from 24 NATO and partner nations (including 12,000 from Poland) together to train, exercise and integrate Polish national command and force structures into an allied, joint, multinational environment. The exercise consists of four military components: land, air, navy and special forces. About 3,000 vehicles and 105 aircraft of different type will be at the disposal of soldiers. The Anakonda exercise, since its beginning, which is organized in a two-year period since 2006, is prepared and conducted by Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces. In previous editions: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 there were nearly 50.000 soldiers altogether.