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Friday, October 26, 2012

Israeli General Says Wargames With U.S. Boost Deterrence

Shachar Shohat & Craig Franklin |The biggest-ever U.S.-Israeli military exercise, bringing 3,500 American troops to test air- defense systems with 1,000 Israeli solders, should worry Iran and Hamas, an Israeli commander said.

“When you see two professional armed forces such as the U.S. and Israeli air-defense forces working together and practicing together, of course, it’s a message of deterrence,” Brigadier-General Shachar Shohat said yesterday after surveying anti-missile systems brought to Tel Aviv for the wargames. “I hope the other side also understands it like that.”

Shohat and U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Craig Franklin are running the month-long exercise dubbed “Austere Challenge 12” designed to create “stress situations” in Israel’s airspace and off its Mediterranean coast that test the ability of both countries to act against attacks.

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