Post on 17-Jan-2016
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“COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH’’
NATO RAPID DEPLOYABLE CORPS - GREECE
Col Dimitrios Grousouzakos
15’
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Introduction
CA
WhyWhy
6 Questions+ 6 Answers=Comprehensive Approach
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WhereWhere
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• Changing Global Development – Challenging Strategic Environment
• New Risks and Threats – Broader Missions and Operations
• Different World – Different Ways -Distinct Means
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail”
Psychologist Abraham Maslow
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“The shooting side of the business is only 25% of the
trouble and the other 75% lies in getting the people of this country
behind us”
General Sir Gerald Templer
Malaya 1952
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Alliance Nations’
Instruments of Power
Alliance Nations’
Instruments of Power
Political
Military
Civil
Economic
Political
Military
Civil
Economic
• Conflict Prevention and Crisis Resolution• Peace keeping – Humanitarian Operations –
Disaster Relief • Stabilisation Activities and [Military Support to]
Reconstruction Efforts
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Riga Summit Declaration 29 Nov 06
• No security = No development in Afghanistan (Para 6)
• Today requires a comprehensive approach by the international community (Para 10)
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A Comprehensive Approach is a means to ensure a coordinated and coherent response to a crisis by all actors involved.
Definition
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Three Aspects
• Improving crisis management instruments
• Improving Alliance’s practical co-operation at all levels
• Enhancing NATO’s ability to bring military support to stabilisation operations and reconstruction efforts in all phases of a conflict
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NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, at the GLOBSEC Conference 17 Jan 2008
Who
• Nations-International Organizations -Local Actors
• Two points• “…NATO cannot deliver this Comprehensive
Approach all on its own …”
• “… it is not NATO that can lead this effort: that is the United Nations’ role…”
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4 Main Strands
• Planning and Conduct of Operations
• Lessons Learned, Training and Exercises
• Enhancing Cooperation with External Actors
• Public Messaging
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Planning and Conduct of Operations (Samples)
• Adjust NATO’s operational planning procedures
• Support other international actors
• Develop and discuss with other international actors proposals to engage the local actors
• Compile a list of national experts & liaise with expert international organizations
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How
Lessons Learned, Training and Exercises (Samples)
• Internal Training
• External Training with the others actors
• Active participation of other international actors in NATO’s crisis management exercises
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How
• To improve co-operation
• Call for regular consultative seminars &conferences
• Regular meetings NATO SG/ Heads of International Actors
• Improves Liaison with UN & EU
• Conducts regular staff talks
• Exchanges regularly early warning and assessment information
Enhancing Cooperation with External Actors (Samples)
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How
• In order to reinforce its public message of commitment to working with players involved:
• Substantiate the overall international efforts
• Share information strategies and campaigns
• Reinforce the NATO media operations capability
Public Messaging (Samples)
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Warfighting Security Stabilisation Reconstruction
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Operational Spectrum
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Three Levels
• Strategic level
• Operational level
• Tactical level
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• The Comprehensive Approach is to contact, to communicate and to consult as well as to coordinate, to collaborate and to cooperate
• with Nations Partners, International / Governmental / Non-Governmental Organizations, and local actors
• through internal improvements within the Alliance and
• external relationships between NATO and other involved and/or engaged actors
• ultimately for their mutual benefit or as a minimum to de-conflict actions and end states.
Conclusion
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Conclusion