According to the recently published Balkan Defence Monitor 2024, most countries in the region saw a rise in international military exercises last year. Serbia, on the other hand, has maintained a ban on military exercises since the start of the war in Ukraine, lifting it only once in 2023 – to participate in “the Platinum Wolf 2023”, co-organised by the United States. NATO and the US remain the dominant exercise partners for all the countries in the Western Balkans.
In 2023, North Macedonia participated in 31 exercises, compared to 20 in 2022. In the case of Croatia, the number of exercises rose sharply from 14 in 2022 to as…
