Operation Dragoon Ride
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Operation Dragoon Ride was a 2015 military exercise of the US Army and NATO involving transfer of military equipment and personnel from the Baltic states across Poland and the Czech Republic to German
3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Dragoons returning to their garrison in Germany, April 2015
Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka (center) visiting the convoy in Prague on 31 March 2015
Petr Pavel
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Petr Pavel is a Czech politician and retired army general, currently serving as the fourth president of the Czech Republic, in office since March 2023. Prior to this, he served as Chair of the NATO Mi
Operation Dragoon Ride
…on 31 March 2015, with Martin Stropnický, the Minister of Defense, and Karel Schwarzenberg, a former Czech presidential candidate. Both Sobotka and Petr Pavel (Chairman of the NATO Military Committee), described reports of the "divided [Czech] nation" as a "media fiction". Operation Atlantic Resolve…
Official portrait, 2023
Pavel (4th from left) at the International Special Training Centre in Pfullendorf, Germany in February 2016
Haakon Bruun-Hanssen (left), Norway's Chief of Defence, in a discussion with Pavel in 2016
Pavel during a rally in support of Ukraine in Brno, March 2022