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The historically neutral Switzerland has been raising eyebrows of late, thanks to the recent military drills the country has undertaken. Though Switzerland maintains a robust military force, with mandatory military service for Swiss men, they typically have kept their drills to their airfields or military bases. But on Wednesday, as Agence France-Presse reported in Barron’s, Switzerland undertook a drill that practiced a wartime maneuver for the first time since 1991. Known as an Alpha Uno exercise, the drill involved the Swiss air force using its F/A-18 fighter jets to practice landing on a s…

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