Exercise Strikeback
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Exercise Strikeback, aka Operation Strikeback, was a major naval exercise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that took place over a ten-day period in September 1957.
NATO military command and areas of responsibilities (1954)
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U.S. Navy ASW Task Force Alfa (1959)
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The Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic was one of two supreme commanders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the other being the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. The SACLANT led Allied Command A
Exercise Strikeback
…he cannot always prescribe battle conditions that suit him. With the establishment of NATO's Allied Command Atlantic (ACLANT) on 30 January 1952, the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) joined the previously-created Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) as one of the alliance's two principal parts of the NATO Military Command…
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