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Nato's Largest Exercise Series in the Baltic MAGAZINE FOR HQ JFC BRUNSSUM - AUGUST 2020 NATO’S LARGEST EXERCISE SERIES IN THE BALTIC SEA THE ALLIANCE OPERATIONAL READINESS REMAINS UNDIMINISHED THIS MONTH’S FOCUS : COM JFCBS INTERVIEW « EFFICIENCY CREATES SECURITY » • NATO’S STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS IN AGHANISTAN • NATO FIGHTER AIRCRAFT SAFEGUARD BALTIC SKIES JFC• BRITISH ARMED FORCESBRUNSSUM WE FOCUS ON CARS. Your NATO Specialists Kai Caron Sales manager for new vehicles Fon +49 (2451) 9870 - 591 [email protected] We are looking forward to your visit! 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Frank Warda (DEU Army) 3 COMMAND GROUP CORNER Editorial Director Cpt Aouatef Zimrani (FRA Army) 4 COMMANDER JFCBS INTERVIEW Chief Editor 7 NATO’S STRATCOM IN AFGHANISTAN Cpt Tobias Luckau (DEU Air Force) Assistant Editor 10 DEFENDER 20 EXERCISE Adj Leo Roos (NLD Army) 14 EXCHANGE OFFICER STORY EFP BATTLEGROUP LATVIA Assistant Editor Veerle Dandoy (BEL Civ) 15 BALTOPS EXERCISE Assistant Editor 18 DYNAMIC MONGOOSE EXERCISE Sgt Maj Peter van Bastelaar (NLD Navy) Assistant Editor 20 BALTIC AIR POLICING WO Marc Andre Gaudreault (CAN Army) 21 ITALIAN AIR FORCE F35 FIGHTERS IN ICELAND Assistant Editor CONTRIBUTORS: 22 SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE SEMINAR Colonel Knut Peters, JFCBS COMMS MPA Lt Colonel Benjamin Sakrisson, JFCBS COMMS MPA 23 THE COMING OF AGE OF THE JLSG Major Mark Peebles, eFP BG LATVIA Commander Hanns-Christian Klasing, 24 BRITISH ARMED FORCES JFCBS COMMS MPA MARCOM PAO Petty Officer Jakob Østheim, Standing NATO maritime 26 VISITS AND ACTIVITIES Group One Manfred Reudenbach, Allied Air Command Public Affairs 28 WE ARE JFCBS : JUSTYNA FROM POLAND Office Cdr Michel Loic, JFCBS J7 DLL Lt Colonel Alessandro CONCARI JFCBS J7 DLL Lt Commander Dave Jones, JLSG Brunssum Wing Commander Travis Tonkin, JFCBS COMMS IO PHOTO CREDITS: British Royal Navy : POA Carl Osmond; Dan Rosenbaum, HMS Kent ABOUT THE COVER Standing Nato Maritime Group 1 : Petty Officer Jakob Østheim BALTIC SEA (June 16, 2020) Sailors onboard U.S. Marine Corps : Sgt. 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This C2 construct the countryside in this region since cy- provides the framework to work together in a cling is one of my hobbies. constructive and collaborative way which then allows us to be even better prepared to defend Throughout my career, I have served mostly in the Alliance and to deter possible aggressive ac- combat units. That includes deployments too, tors. Good planning is the key to success and lays just like most of us. I have been privileged to have the foundation for conducting and supporting served as a commander at three different levels the core tasks in the Northern European Thea- in my deployments. I was a company command- tre, C2 is a vital part of that planning. Neverthe- er in 1995 in Srebrenica as part of the United less within formal C2 constructs, it is always the Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) mission effort of us military men and women to make it in Bosnia Herzegovina. I was commander of a work in the best possible way. Battlegroup in 2004 in Iraq in the Stabilisation Force Iraq (SFIR) mission and I had the honour To gain and maintain situational awareness and of being commander of the brigade-sized Task to have the best possible understanding of our assigned forces. Training and exercises provide Force Uruzgan in 2008-2009 in the ISAF mis- mission and its actors, we actively synchronise the opportunity to test and evaluate plans and sion in Afghanistan.
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