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 "title": "NATO's Sentry Triad: The Standing Operation Replaces the Exercise",
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 "published": "2026-06-02T16:49:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-06-24T17:01:34.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrussels, 2 June 2026 · updated 24 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Between January 2025 and February 2026 NATO stood up three open-ended enhanced vigilance activities (eVAs) — Baltic Sentry, Eastern Sentry, Arctic Sentry — making the permanent deployment, not the fixed-date exercise, its working instrument of deterrence\n * Baltic Sentry (14 January 2025) followed the Estlink 2 cable severing; runs through JFC Brunssum and MARCOM; has already spun out Task Force X-Baltic as a procurement",
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