Factsheet on NATO’s biggest exercise Steadfast Defender 2024 NATO’s military readiness is advancing with a sense of urgency, unity of purpose, and unity of action. Exercise #SteadfastDefender2024, the largest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War, will be a display of that unity. It will demonstrate NATO’s ability to rapidly deploy forces from North America and across the Alliance to reinforce the defense of Europe. It will show that NATO can conduct and sustain complex multi-domain operat