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Eyeing Russia, NATO troops drill for war on a Cold-War scale

Clip: 12/11/2017 | 8m 46s  | Video has closed captioning.

Eight hundred American and NATO soldiers, attack helicopters and tank busters are deployed in a military exercise of extraordinary complexity in Poland, preparing for trench warfare against an army with a level of sophistication the U.S. military hasn't seen in decades. Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports on the most recent of the tit-for-tat exercises between NATO and Russia.

Aired: 12/11/17

Rating: NR

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