Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
13.03.2015: USA want to move 800 tanks to Europe http://www.sat1bayern.de/news/201503...r-stationiert/
Second link: http://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberpfa...woehr-100.html
Not just to abstract Europe, but to Bayern. Check the distance from it to Russia. It is stupid to thus react to tanks being deployed thousands of miles from Russia. They might as well justify the alert by ISIS activity.
Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
10.03.2015: USA send 3000 soldiers to the baltic countries http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/usa...tikum-101.html
The first sentence says the tanks and other equipment are being unloaded in the port.

All the exercises that happened in Europe were well-known and publicly announced, the page Kage linked has several from 2014 shown on the map.
Those (and the Bayerische one) were not exercises but deployments. I don't know if such things are heralded a year ahead. Since the articles claim that these were the steps connected with the Ukraine crisis, I don't think it could have been announced in 2014.