Cope North

Cope North is an annual multinational military exercise taking place in and around Guam.^[1] The first exercise took place in 1978.^[2]

Formation flight during Cope North 2015

In 2016 in addition to US, Japanese and Australian forces South Korea, the Philippines and New Zealand participated.^[3] This was the largest ever Cope North exercise.^[4] 2017^[5] and 2018^[6][7][8] saw a return to the usual participants - US, Japanese and Australian forces.