What made the demonstration remarkable was the players and how they were getting to the beach.
Amphibious operations are among the more difficult ones in the military.
Split second timing is necessary, and that's tough to do even when one country is involved. At Bright Star here, six nations contributed amphibious expertise and five others contributing air and land forces. Interoperability is a NATO term hatched in the mid-1970s. It means militaries being able to operate together. NATO showed interoperability during Operation Allied Force, the most successful air campaign in history.