
Following a meeting between the Technocratic State and the USJR, joint-military exercises between the two are to commence soon. Naval, air, ground, and amphibious exercises shall be conducted to ensure the utmost security for both nations according to the long-time mutual defense pact between the two. Intelligence-gathering, including surveillance and reconnaissance, will be key points in these exercises. Effective intelligence-gathering is paramount to success for allied nations, and practiced coordinated efforts will ensure the survivability of each nation in case of the activation of the mutual defense pact.
Naval exercises will ensure that both nations can equally protect each other even if an ocean away, with great coordination and intelligence-gathering capability and skill. Naval exercises will aid in both nations' security across the world, and help in times of trouble when both allies may need full cooperation between the two to ensure each's survival across multiple theatres.
Air exercises will make sure both nations can work together to gain and maintain air superiority, or at minimum, air parity. Keeping the airspace of both nations clear and in control is essential to any nation's survival, and joint-exercises by the USJR and the Technocratic State will ensure that both nation's sovereign airspaces will not be violated by a hostile party without said hostile party fundamentally confronting both nations. Intelligence-gathering and key airstrikes will be made sure to be key aspects of the exercises, with either being necessary to a nation's defense.
Amphibious assaults are important in gaining any land lost to hostile invading parties, and the practice of joint amphibious assault will ensure that the alliance will be able to aid each other when it may count the most. Ground exercises can assure allianced nations that logistics can smoothly run, and key land-holding positions can successfully repel enemy advancements and invasions. Troops being the ones that hold sovereign territory, success equally relies on ground troops and logistics just as much as any other branch, and successfully holding ground is a key aspect of a nation's defense, which will be practiced by both nations under the mutual defense pact.
However, the majority of exercises are to be held in Zanera. Deeming it more necessary that Zanera would be at higher risk of greater threat, and the lack of power projection, only a small fraction of the exercises will be held in the USJR. Most will be held in and around Zanera. The necessary protection of Zanera’s sovereign territory has prompted the USJR and the Technocratic State to agree to a coastal USJR military base, with a maximum of 10,000 troops allowed to be stationed there at one time. A few airstrips, a small naval port, and several barracks will be co-built by the Zanerian government and the USJR, with the Technocratic State aiding the best it can with maintenance in times of economic hardship. This base is expected to be pivotal in the Zanerian-USJR mutual defense pact alliance and will aid in countering any threats to Zanerian soil. Construction is to commence this year and continue on to next year. The Technocratic State also wishes for other mutual defense pact alliance nations, allied with Zanera, to establish military bases within Zanerian sovereign territory.









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