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The drill will involve about 90,000 personnel and rehearse NATO’s execution of its regional defence plans.
Cavoli said the drills will demonstrate “our unity, our strength, and our determination to protect each other”.
The Baltic states, which are seen as most at risk from a potential Russian attack, will be another location of the drills.
Germany will also be a location because it is a hub for incoming reinforcement and countries on the fringes of the alliance, including Norway and Romania.
The troops taking part in the exercises will come from NATO countries and Sweden, which hopes to join the alliance soon.
At the 2023 NATO summit held in Vilnius, Lithuania, allies signed off on regional plans that ended a long era of the military bloc no longer seeing a need for large-scale defence plans, as wars were focused in the Middle East or Afghanistan.
The bloc previously felt confident that there was no longer a threat from Russia.
The last exercises of a similar scale were the Reforger drills during the Cold War in 1988 with 125,000 participants and the Trident Juncture ones in 2018 with 50,000 participants, according to NATO.
