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The exercise also gave Marines a chance to practice defending \u201ckey maritime terrain\u201d with tactics they refined in the Pacific. Dubbed Operation Atlantic City, a reference to a WWII-era U.S. base on Jan Mayen, the Norwegian-led exercise ran from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4 and marked the first instance of \u201crapid insertion of military assets to remote and austere locations,\u201d the Marine Corps said. A news release described the exercise as focused on developing expeditionary advanced basing capabilities and on testing participants\u2019 ability to conduct combined fires missions, provide maritime domain awareness and deny adversaries the use of nearby sea lanes. It was a demonstration of the militaries\u2019 ability to \u201cintegrate multinational sensors, command-and-control nodes, and precision fires into a unified, joint kill web.\u201d Training with weapons that could challenge enemy air and naval movements appeared to be a major element. At the start of the exercise, a U.S. Air Force C-17 transported a U.S. Navy Containerized Launching System \u2014 a 40-foot container with four launch cells for anti-air and anti-ship missiles \u2014 to Trondheim in central Norway in a strategic airlift mission to demonstrate \u201crapid projection of joint logistics and interoperable communication assets.\u201d U.S. and British cargo aircraft also transported vehicles and equipment \u2014 including U.S. Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, a Norwegian National Maneuver Air Defense System, and an Australian Strikemaster anti-ship-missile system operated by Marines \u2014 to Jan Mayen as part of the rapid-insertion training. The vehicles were moved around the island to test troops\u2019 ability to position and protect assets on rough and contested territory. Those platforms were also employed to relay targeting data and communications as part of what the Corps calls \u201ca resilient kill web\u201d comprising dispersed weapons and command-and-control nodes. Other drills, like the delivery of medical supplies using an aerial drone, underscored the exercise\u2019s expeditionary focus. Holding \u2018key maritime terrain\u2019 at risk A mountainous island 620 miles from mainland Norway with an active volcano and partially covered by glaciers, Jan Mayen is uninhabited except for a few dozen Norwegian military personnel and Norwegian Meteorological Institute staff. But it is a strategic outpost in waters \u201cvital to NATO in terms of securing international sea lines of communication and transatlantic supply routes,\u201d a Norwegian official said after Operation Atlantic City 2025. The 2025 version of the exercise was the first time Marines operated on Jan Mayen, according to Lt. Col. Kurt Stahl, communications director for US Marine Corps Forces Europe. That came after an apparent lull in U.S. activity there since late 2019, when airmen visited to do an airfield assessment. This year\u2019s Atlantic City was \u201cquite significant\u201d because it was the second consecutive year Marines ventured to the island, Stahl added. Jan Mayen provides a \u201ctrue austere island location\u201d where Marines can train on inhospitable but important terrain, said Lt. Col. David Palacio, fires officer for Marine Corps Forces Europe. \u201cThis year it was absolutely an integrated force, whether that was in targeting, intelligence, communications, also medical capabilities, which will be a concern in any type of austere and isolated environment like this,\u201d Palacio said in a video released after the exercise, adding that troops were \u201creally integrating significantly more than last year.\u201d Atlantic City 2026\u2019s content and location were reminiscent of Marine Corps exercises with allies in the Western Pacific. U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Joel Murcek tests communications with a Strikemaster missile system on Jan Mayen Island, Norway, on Aug. 31, 2026. (Sgt. Noah Masog/U.S. Marine Corps)Over the past several years, Marines have deployed to Philippine and Japanese islands with sensors and weapons \u2014 notably the NMESIS anti-ship missile \u2014 that would allow them to monitor and control sea lanes and airspace around Taiwan that China would need to use in a conflict. Atlantic City 2026 was meant to ensure Marines in Europe could do similar tasks. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle delivered to the island on a British cargo plane \u201cwas really being used as a surrogate for\u201d NMESIS, Palacio said in another video. \u201cSo we were validating that this vehicle can fit on this aircraft and can be delivered rapidly to this location, which we did flawlessly.\u201d The message of Atlantic City 2026 was also similar to that of the exercises on Japan\u2019s southwest islands and in the northern Philippines: \u201cIt\u2019s important for the adversary to know that, \u2018Hey, this is a thing out here as well, too, so you\u2019re not going to get sanctuary in areas that you thought,\u2019\u201d Palacio said. \u201c\u2018That key maritime terrain that you thought you could just bypass? You now have to understand that you\u2019re being held at risk.\u2019\u201d Approaching Russia\u2019s \u2018bastion\u2019 Atlantic City 2026 also reflects NATO\u2019s shift toward the Arctic. The exercise ran concurrently with Northern Viking, a NATO exercise focused on defending Iceland and sea lanes between Greenland, Iceland, and the UK \u2014 a chokepoint known as the GIUK Gap \u2014 and was part of NATO\u2019s new Arctic Sentry initiative, which is a response to \u201cRussia\u2019s increasing military activity and China\u2019s growing interest in the Arctic,\u201d the alliance said. \u201cOver the last three, four, five years, allied activity in the Arctic has more than doubled, so there\u2019s a lot of interest in the Arctic,\u201d Maj. Gen. \u00d8ivind Gunnerud, chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, said during an event at Norway\u2019s embassy in Washington, D.C., in mid-September. Russia \u201cis the most important military factor shaping our planning in the High North. It retains strategic, significant capabilities close to Norway,\u201d including the powerful Northern Fleet, long-range aviation forces and advanced air and missile systems, Gunnerud said. NATO also has growing concerns about Moscow\u2019s ability to disrupt critical infrastructure, particularly undersea data cables, in the Arctic and North Atlantic. NATO used the GIUK Gap as a vantage point to track Soviet submarines during the Cold War, and Moscow\u2019s investment in its submarine force over the past two decades has given the chokepoint new relevance, but the interest in Jan Mayen is a sign that the alliance\u2019s focus is moving farther north \u2014 closer to the Barents Sea, a \u201cbastion\u201d from which Russian subs could potentially strike targets in Europe with conventional and nuclear-armed missiles. Norwegian Home Guard soldiers escort U.S. Marine Corps Joint Light Tactical Vehicles during a tactical displacement in Jan Mayen, Norway, on Aug. 30, 2026. (Sgt. Noah Masog/U.S. Marine Corps)Norway has led the way amid NATO\u2019s shift to the north. In the coming years, the country will field new coast guard vessels designed for the Arctic, as well as new frigates and submarines. Paired with P-8 patrol planes that are already \u201cflying constantly,\u201d those ships will help in the \u201ccat-and-mouse game up there to keep track of the submarines,\u201d Gunnerud said. Norway is also investing more in Jan Mayen. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Oslo invited allies to visit the island, and since then it has made plans to bolster its military posture and authority on the island. 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