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2022 Russian Military Exercise In The Irish EEZ Controversy
The 2022 Russian military exercise controversy concerns proposed military exercises in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland in international waters but within Ireland's exclusive economic zone from 3 to 8 February 2022. The exercise was to involve both the Russian Navy and Russian air force. The planned exercises were later cancelled by Russia at the request of the Irish government. Background By 22 January, the Irish government received a warning that the Russian military was conducting an exercise or range practice in international waters off the Irish coast in the first week of February 2022. The Irish Aviation Authority announced that it was to reroute flights and issue a NOTAM. The area in question is approximately 240 km off the Irish coast. TASS had announced that military exercises would run from the end of January to end in February off the Russian coast, also in the Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Atlantic and Pacific. The Russian Embassy describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Exercise
A military exercise, training exercise, maneuver (manoeuvre), or war game is the employment of military resources in Military education and training, training for military operations. Military exercises are conducted to explore the effects of warfare or test tactics and strategies without actual combat. They also ensure the combat readiness of garrisoned or deployable forces prior to deployment from a home base. While both war games and military exercises aim to simulate real conditions and scenarios for the purpose of preparing and analyzing those scenarios, the distinction between a war game and a military exercise is determined, primarily, by the involvement of actual military forces within the simulation, or lack thereof. Military exercises focus on the simulation of real, full-scale military operations in controlled hostile conditions in attempts to reproduce war time decisions and activities for training purposes or to analyze the outcome of possible war time decisions. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Coveney
Simon Coveney (born 16 June 1972) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2022 to 2024. He served as Leader of Fine Gael#Deputy leaders, deputy leader of Fine Gael from 2017 to 2024. He was in the government of Ireland, cabinet from 2011 to 2024, holding a range of ministerial portfolios, including as Tánaiste from 2017 to 2020. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central (Dáil constituency), Cork South-Central constituency from 1998 to 2024, having been elected in a by-election following the death of his father Hugh Coveney. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South (European Parliament constituency), South constituency from 2004 to 2007. Early life Coveney was born in Cork (city), Cork in 1972 to Hugh Coveney and Pauline Coveney. He has 5 brothers and 1 sister. His father was a chartered quantity surveyor and later a Teachta Dála, TD, and also a member of one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Guérend
Vincent (Latin: ''Vincentius'') is a masculine given name originating from the Roman name ''Vincentius'', which itself comes from the Latin verb ''vincere'', meaning "to conquer." People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003), Maltese sculptor *Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter *Vincent Munier (born 1976), French wildlife photographer Saints *Vincent of Saragossa (died 304), deacon and martyr, patron saint of Lisbon and Valencia *Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (died 305), martyrs who evangelized in the Pyrenees *Vincent of Digne (died 379), French bishop of Digne *Vincent of Lérins (died 445), Church father, Gallic author of early Christian writings *Vincent Madelgarius (died 677), Benedictine monk who established two monasteries in France *Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), Valencian Dominican missionary and logician *Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), Catholic priest who served the poor *Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vincent Liem the Nguyen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
