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] 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.