Nimble Titan

Inside the Army ran a story this week about the two-year, unclassified, multinational Nimble Titan missile defense exercise that wrapped up in April.

ITA reported that Nimble Titan will likely expand to include countries in the Middle East region over the course of its next campaign:

Nimble Titan 14 "will grow in size and scope," and "eight new sovereign nations have been invited to join the campaign which begins this year," according to an Aug. 15 statement sent to Inside the Army by Army Col. Mike Derrick, Nimble Titan's director.

As for the countries that took part in the most recent exercise:

Nimble Titan 12 had participation from 15 nations, NATO headquarters, all U.S. combatant commanders and other government agencies. A total of 10 additional nations observed the event, Derrick said. Nations must attend as an observer before they can be invited to participate in subsequent campaigns, he explained. Derrick said he could not discuss which countries participated in the last set of war games.

Since that story, ITA has obtained a set of STRATCOM briefing slides dated June 7, 2011, and marked "cleared for public release" -- and the slides list the countries that participated in Nimble Titan 12. They include Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.

View those briefing slides, as well as a more recent set issued on May 31.