Michael Eisenstadt David Pollock How the United States Benefits ...

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To facilitate mutual learning and deepen cooperation,
the two sides send personnel to attend each
other’s military schools, swap liaison officers, and
conduct regular military-to-military exchanges. The
relationship is overseen by a number of joint committees
that meet regularly, such as the Defense
Policy Advisory Group (DPAG) and the Joint
Political-Military Group ( JPMG). The armed forces
of both countries also conduct regular joint training
exercises: for instance, the air forces of the two
countries conduct periodic joint aerial training exercises
( Juniper Stallion); U.S. naval aircraft conduct
live fire exercises at Israeli bombing ranges ( Juniper
Hawk); Israeli aircraft and crews periodically
attend Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base in
Nevada; U.S. Marine Corps units regularly train at
Israel’s national urban warfare training center in the
Negev (Noble Shirley); and the United States and
Israel conduct biennial missile-defense exercises in
the eastern Mediterranean ( Juniper Cobra).
Over the years, some of the most important
collaboration has involved the transfer of Israeli
lessons learned concerning counterterror tactics,
techniques, and procedures, conventional and
unconventional combat, the use of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), and even the employment of
dogs in combat and for counter-IED (improvised
explosive device) tasks.
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