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It is responsible for preparing assessments and studies on its relationship with Afghanistan. The new RESOLUTE NATO member states and NATO Commands. The Division provides strategic warning and SUPPORT Mission’s main focus is to train, advise and NATO military issues identifying areas of strategic and operational interest and situation awareness to all NATO HQ elements. Its core activities are: developing a NATO assist the Afghan security forces. This new NATO-led proposing courses of action. It also ensures that NATO decisions and policies mission is different from the ISAF one and the force Intelligence framework, architecture and intelligence capabilities; providing customer oriented on military matters are implemented by the appropriate NATO military bodies. is significantly smaller in size. RESOLUTE SUPPORT policies and NATO Agreed Intelligence Assessments; advising on intelligence sharing matters focuses on eight essential functions: strategy and and conducting intelligence liaison activities. The IMS’s work enables NATO’s Military Representatives to deal with issues rapidly and policy planning, resourcing and execution; budgeting; effectively, ensuring that the MC provides the North Atlantic Council (NAC) with consensus personnel management; force generation and The Operations (OPS) Division closely monitors ongoing NATO operations, follows based advice on all military aspects of policy, operations, and transformation within sustainment; and transparency, accountability and exercises and training and provides advice on all related NATO operations. It also follows the the Alliance. oversight. In all those areas, the objectives are to implementation of decisions taken by the MC with regard to NATO operations. The Division’s Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Director General of the help the Afghan security forces, security ministries core activities: crisis response planning and operations; management of contingency reactions International Military Staff, discussing issues with Directors and and institutions as well as the higher levels of the The IMS is an independent body within NATO that comprises approximately 500 dedicated Heads of Offices at the IMS Executive Group Weekly Meeting. to international crises; planning and conducting all operations of air, land and maritime matters. Afghan army and police develop the processes and military and civilian personnel from NATO’s member states, working in an international mechanisms they need to become sustainable in the capacity for the common interest of the Alliance, rather than on behalf of their country of origin. long term. RESOLUTE SUPPORT operates in Kabul The Plans & Policy (P&P) Division is involved in all policy and planning matters such as and four other locations: Mazar-i-Sharif (north), Herat Alliance defence policy and strategic planning. This division supports and gives military advice The strength of the IMS lies in exchanging information and views with the staffs of the Military (west), Kandahar (south), and Laghman (east). to the DGIMS and the Chairman of the MC essentially on three areas: Strategic Policy and Representatives, the civilian International Staff (IS), the Strategic Commanders, multinational Kosovo Force (KFOR). Since June 1999, NATO has Concept; Nuclear Deterrence and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence Working Groups, and NATO Agencies, ensuring effective and efficient staff work. led a peacekeeping operation in Kosovo. Initially Policy; Defence and Force Planning. composed of 50,000 troops following the March 1999 The Director General of the International Military Staff (DGIMS) air campaign, the force now numbers around 5,100 The Cooperation & Regional Security (C&RS) Division develops military Cooperative NATO member and Partner Nation personnel. Security policy and is the main point of contact for NATO HQ military Cooperative Security The IMS is led by the DGIMS, a General/Flag officer, selected by the NATO Chiefs of Operation OCEAN SHIELD (OOS). The Alliance’s with Partners from the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and Partnership for Peace, Defence from candidates nominated by Member Nations. The DGIMS is responsible for counter piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden and the Mediterranean Dialogue, Istanbul Cooperation Initiative and with Partners Across the Globe. Somali Basin, is being conducted with several ships the coordination between the decision-making bodies of the Alliance, the two Strategic Additionally, C&RS is the main military contact with all non-NATO member states who conduct and air assets, in close coordination with many operations with the Alliance. Commanders, national military delegations from NATO and Partner countries working in international actors. For the first ever, in 2013, a NATO Brussels, and the civilian International Staff, that support the Secretary General and the Partner Nation, contributed. NAC, in order for the IMS to provide the best possible policy advice to the MC. Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR (OAE). The Alliance’s The Logisitics & Resources (L&R) Division develops and defines policies and principles, The Ukrainian Frigate Hetman Sahaidachny deployed in the only Article V mission conducts counter terrorism plans and concepts on all matters concerning logistics, medical, armaments, research and Gulf of Aden as part of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield. The DGIMS reports to the Chairman of the MC (CMC), takes part in all MC meetings (both operations in the Mediterranean with the participation development, and civil emergency planning. In addition, the Division is the focal point for in Chiefs of Defence format and the meetings in Permanent Session), also attending the of Partner Nations. NATO’s military manpower, financial resources and security investment issues. NAC and senior political meetings, and holds regular meetings with the Directors of the six NATO deployment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey. Six IMS functional areas in order to observe the progress, provide direction, and assign new Patriot missile batteries are currently operating under The NATO Headquarters C3 Staff (NHQC3S) supports development of policy standards and tasks and projects. NATO command and control in Southern Turkey in provides analysis and advice to NATO in the Consultation Command and Control (C3) domain. order to augment Turkey’s air defence capabilities to It is an integrated staff (IS/IMS) and reports to both DGIMS and Assistant Secretary General/ The current DGIMS is Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, UK Air Force. defend its