{"id":45304,"date":"2020-07-10T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/10\/as-defender-2020-winds-down-army-planning-for-2021-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:46:58","slug":"as-defender-2020-winds-down-army-planning-for-2021-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/07\/10\/as-defender-2020-winds-down-army-planning-for-2021-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"As Defender 2020 drill winds down, US Army plans for 2021 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=7a91c3c3-f95e-4e70-aba1-ab3b1bca122c\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-7a91c3c3-f95e-4e70-aba1-ab3b1bca122c.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Get a look at the Army&#8217;s movement of an armored brigade from Georgia to Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 As the last portions of the altered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/12\/27\/does-the-army-have-its-european-weapons-stocks-right-defender-europe-2020-will-tell\/\">Defender 2020 exercise<\/a> kick into gear, the U.S. Army is beginning to plan its 2021 edition, a top general said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a Defense News virtual panel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/transatlantic-partnerships\/\" target=_blank>trans-Atlantic alliances<\/a> Brig. 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Having validated that we can do it, we\u2019re confident that we\u2019ll figure it out in partnership with our allies,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel confident that we will [be able to] maintain readiness and interoperability across Europe, despite COVID, regardless of how long it may be a part of our operating environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bernabe predicted the 2021 exercise will likely be smaller than 2020\u2032s planned version, which should be no surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defender 2020 was billed as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/10\/07\/reforger-redux-defender-2020-exercise-to-be-3rd-largest-exercise-in-europe-since-cold-war\/\">third-largest military exercise<\/a> in Europe since the end of the Cold War, a major test of the United States\u2019 ability to move stateside forces to locations across Europe, including Poland, the Baltics, some Nordic nations and Germany. A total of 20,000 soldiers were expected to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the COVID-19 outbreak forced the Army to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/03\/16\/soldiers-in-europe-for-defender-2020-to-return-home-amid-pandemic-2\/\">hit pause on the exercise<\/a> in March just as it was starting. Several smaller, related drills were canceled outright, and U.S. forces were sent back home. A smaller associated exercise picked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2020\/05\/13\/pentagons-european-exercise-campaign-resumes-with-us-polish-drill\/\">up again in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bernabe\u2019s comments came just hours before the Army announced that a combined arms battalion would deploy to Europe between July 14 and Aug. 22 as part of the \u201cfinal phase\u201d of the modified Defender 2020 exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deployment will involve 550 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, with the 1st Cavalry Division Headquarters in Poznan, Poland, serving as mission command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approximately 55 Abrams tanks and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles will take part. The tanks will be equipped with the Trophy active protection system so the Army can \u201cassess and experience the dynamics of moving and installing the system in a field environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of June, the European Union put citizens of the United States on a list of countries barred from traveling to EU member states due to the continued spread of COVID-19. 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