"Cobra Gold"

The multinational Cobra Gold 2022 military exercises concluded on Friday with no Covid-19 cases among the participants, the organisers reported.

The 41st Cobra Gold military exercises are underway in Thailand, with a return to “heavy-year” drills after 2020 and 2021 saw the war games downgraded due to Covid-19.

The Cobra Gold annual wargames led by Thailand and the US kicked off on a reduced scale on Sunday, with the Thai Defence Ministry insisting Myanmar’s exclusion was unrelated to its crisis following last year’s military coup.

The Thai-US Cobra Gold military exercises are set to kick off later this month until early March, but this time it will be of limited scale with the 10 observing countries being excluded due to the Covid crisis.

US troops have helped construct a new school building in Sa Kaew province as part of the joint Cobra Gold military exercise.

The annual “Cobra Gold” Thailand-US military training exercise will be adjusted down in terms of participating personnel and types of drills, military commander-in-chief General Chalermpol Srisawat said on Wednesday.

The US aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis has been anchored at the Laem Chabang deep sea port as a display of the close military ties Thailand enjoys with the United States. The aircraft carrier arrived on Tuesday, when the Cobra Gold military exercises were launched, and will be leaving today. 

Against the background of China’s increasing power and assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, the United States is seeking to intensify Cobra Gold, the largest regional joint military exercise, that is annually hosted by Thailand.

Sad indeed it is, that the main occupation and concern of government has become the protection of profits for people and corporations of no patriotic loyalty, the businesses of whom are actively destroying any potential for human society. That is, however, exactly where we are at now.

US and Thai marines slurped snake blood and ate scorpions in a jungle survival programme on Monday as part of the two nations' annual Cobra Gold war games.

Thailand and the United States will co-host the annual multilateral Exercise Cobra Gold military exercises in various areas throughout the Kingdom from February 14 to 24.

On February 14 when Admiral Harry B. Harris of US Pacific Command launches the 36th Cobra Gold joint exercise at Uta-pao airbase, it would send a strong signal to the international community that the US remains engaged strategically in the region as before, especially with its long standing friend and ally of nearly 200 years.