🛡️U.S.-Led Dynamic Front Drill Links NATO Artillery Across Europe in High-Intensity Firepower Test

23 nations synchronize long-range fires and air defense networks, validating cross-border targeting through NATO’s ASCA digital backbone amid Ukraine-style threat scenarios.

MILAN | U.S. and allied artillery units concluded a sweeping, high-intensity firepower drill across Europe this month, testing their ability to mass long-range strikes and counter waves of drones and missiles in a combat scenario modeled on lessons from Ukraine.

The exercise, Dynamic Front, ran from Jan. 26 to Feb. 13 across five countries and nine training areas, bringing together forces from 23 NATO and partner nations. Organized under U.S. leadership, the event focused on validating artillery interoperability—how quickly disparate national systems can plug into a shared command-and-control architecture and deliver coordinated fires across borders.

U.S. Army officials said participating units were tasked with conducting up to 1,500 simulated strikes daily while intercepting between 600 and 1,200 aerial threats in a major European conflict scenario.

✊🏾TELL IT LIKE IT IS Black History Series: Louisiana Freedom Summer (1964) - The Overlooked 1964 Civil Rights Campaign That Challenged Jim Crow at the Ballot Box

While Mississippi drew national headlines, CORE volunteers in Plaquemines Parish and beyond fought literacy tests, segregation and intimidation—laying groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. | (Black History Series) In the summer of 1964, as national attention fixed on Mississippi, a parallel struggle unfolded across Louisiana’s parishes—one that would test federal resolve, expose systemic voter suppression, and help reshape American democracy.

Known as the Louisiana Freedom Summer, or CORE’s Louisiana Project, the campaign was organized by the Congress of Racial Equality and brought volunteers from across the United States to challenge entrenched racial discrimination in voting and public accommodations.