More than 900 soldiers from countries on both sides of the former Iron Curtain are in Poland this week, taking part in the first military exercises between NATO troops and soldiers of the now-defunct Warsaw Pact.
The five-day training program is getting under way today at Biedrusko, a village north of Poznan in western Poland. It is the initial field operation of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, which was created last year to provide military training and planning among North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries and non-NATO members in Eastern Europe.
