FILE - French sailors form a chain to load supplies on board of the French navy frigate Normandie during a port call in a Norwegian fjord, north of the Arctic circle, as part of exercises codenamed Steadfast Defender, Friday March 8, 2024. With the war in its third year, NATO now has 500,000 military personnel on high readiness to counter an attack, whether it be on land, at sea, by air or in cyberspace. Allies are almost continuously conducting military exercises. One of them this year, Steadfast Defender, involved around 90,000 troops operating across Europe. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)