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2 But military exercises also convey powerful geopolitical messages intended to demonstrate how the capabilities on display enhance regional stability, deter aggression, and reinforce foreign policy goals. 1 Official statements about these military exercises typically stress their specified purpose of improving training, readiness, and interoperability among services and multinational forces. The role of such maneuvers in the larger geostrategic context has been brought to the fore by these activities and President Donald Trump’s decision, announced at his summit in Singapore with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, to suspend the U.S.-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercise. In 2018, both the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conducted their largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War. “ Those people - the map people, the logistics people, the intelligence people - have always been accused, by operational commanders, of thinking more than is good for them, but this time they’ve got it right.”