Spanish marines rappelled from helicopters as German frigates provided a covering bombardment and U.S. fighters blasted a hidden terrorist base, all in a fictional scenario Thursday in which NATO tested its elite new rapid reaction force.
"You see here the new NATO," alliance Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said of NATO's first African war games.
The amphibious landing on Cape Verde's remote Flamingo Beach was the centerpiece of "Steadfast Jaguar," a two-week exercise for the NATO Response Force which the alliance is struggling to declare fully ready on Oct. 1 as the 25,000-strong spearhead of a modernized military pact.
Holding the exercise in the Cape Verde islands, 500 kilometers (300 miles) west of Senegal on the African mainland, is designed to emphasize NATO's switch away from its traditional role defending territory in Europe to focus on managing threats around the world.
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