Arcane Thunder 24, a military exercise involving Moroccan soldiers, will be co-hosted by Morocco from August 5 to 16. The exercise will also be partially held in Germany, according to an announcement by the U.S. Army on July 29. Arcane Thunder 24 will feature 300 soldiers from four countries: the U.S., Morocco, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It is a theater-wide electromagnetic warfare precision synchronization exercise. «It's another opportunity to further strengthen cooperation and highlight the longstanding partnership between the U.S. and Morocco through the testing and synchronization of capabilities», said U.S. Col. Patrick Moffett, 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force commander. «Arcane Thunder 24 will apply non-lethal effects within the multi-domain concept to ensure Allied and partner nations have a decisive advantage against potential adversaries across all domains and the human, physical, and information dimensions of the operating environment», he explained. During this training, the U.S. 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force will lead and conduct «training in a joint, combined environment, focusing on the employment and synchronization of non-lethal effects against adversaries across all domains (land, sea, air, cyber, space) to enable joint forces' freedom of action in the U.S. European Command theater of operations». Two hundred U.S. soldiers will participate alongside approximately 100 Allied and partner soldiers from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Morocco. «This year, we continue to enhance our interoperability with Allied and partner forces under command structures arrayed across more than 3,000 kilometers from Germany to the North Atlantic Ocean and into Morocco», said Moffett. This will be the second iteration of Arcane Thunder and the first time it will be conducted in Morocco. Earlier this year, Morocco also hosted African Lion, an annual U.S. military exercise held across Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia.
