Robert H. Scales: Our precarious defenses in Europe
Portuguese Fuzileiros secure the area after disembarking from an amphibious transport during an exercise as part of the NATO's Trident Juncture 2015 in Troia, 100 kms south of Lisbon on Nov. 5.
For an old Cold Warrior the scene on a bright October afternoon was surreal: America's Second Cavalry Regiment crossing a Romanian river on a Soviet-built tactical bridge assembled by the Romanian Army, while overhead Vietnam-era MiG 21s carried out mock attacks, with German-made antiaircraft guns manned by Romanian crews simulating the destruction of the intruding MiGs.
