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NATO Is Having a Military Exercise. The U.S., Its Largest Member, Won’t Be There.

The operation, Steadfast Dart, comes as President Trump has been accused of undermining the alliance and will be watched closely to see how well the allies manage without their most important partner.

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People in military gear, including helmets and camouflage uniforms, run across a grassy field, each holding a long gun. — NATO troops during last year’s Steadfast Dart training exercise near Galati, Romania.Credit…Eduard Vinatoru/Inquam Photos, via Reuters

By Christopher F. Schuetze

Christopher F. Schuetze reported from aboard the Spanish Navy vessel Castilla, an amphibious warfare ship that will lead European ships around the continent as part of a NATO exercise.

Jan. 29, 2026

At a Spanish port 50 miles northwest of Gibraltar, four Turkish Navy ships, including a brand-new amphibious assault ship that doubles as an aircraft carrier, were set to arrive Friday to take part in NATO military exercises.

Heavy winds had delayed the Turkish vessels, but once they dock at the Spanish Navy port, they will form a fleet with Spanish ships, sail around the continent and rendezvous with French, German, Polish and Dutch vessels. They will then travel to Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, bringing tanks, landing craft, helicopters, drones and troops from southern Europe to northern Germany.

About 10,000 troops from 11 nations will participate. But not a single U.S. weapon or soldier will be among them.

Conceived long before President Trump was accused of undermining faith in the military alliance and its defense pact, the exercise, called Steadfast Dart, is being watched closely to see how well the allies manage without their largest and most important partner.

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On paper, Steadfast Dart is designed to gauge how quickly the countries can get their military assets from one end of the continent to the other in case of an attack, a test of NATO’s Allied Reaction Force. But it comes as European leaders are scrambling to respond to signals from Washington that the NATO alliance is no longer as untouchable as it once was.

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“This exercise could well give an impression of the future of a Europeanized NATO,” said Lukas Mengelkamp, an analyst at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.

The operation is the largest NATO exercise planned for this year, and with it, European NATO partners aim to show what they can do on their own.

“In the times we live now, it is very important to demonstrate the unity of the alliance,” Ingo Gerhartz, the German Air Force general overseeing the operation, said on board the Spanish lead vessel, Castillo.

General Gerhartz called the exercise a “great and important signal” that nations from southern Europe can deploy to Central Europe in the case of a crisis.

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