Nato Mw Coe Annual Publication 2018/19
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NATO MW COE ANNUAL PUBLICATION 2018/19 NATO MOUntaIN WARFARE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE CONTENTS FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................................. 5 MISSION AND VISION .............................................................................................................................. 6 ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE ...................................................................................................... 6 DOCTRINE AND STANDARDIZATION BRANCH ................................................................................ 7 I) MAIN PROJECTS OF THE DOCTRINE AND STANDARDIZATION BRANCH IN 2018 ...... 7 • ATRAINP-6 DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................ 7 • 1ST MOUNTAIN WARFARE CONGRESS – “MOUNTAIN WARFARE AND LEADERSHIP” ........... 8 • DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNTAIN WARFARE TERMINOLOGY .................................................... 10 • ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE FOR OFFICERS & NCOS AT THE ISSW .......................................... 11 II) MAIN PROJECTS OF THE DOCTRINE AND STANDARDIZATION BRANCH IN 2019 .....13 • ENDORSEMENT AND PROMULGATION PROCESS OF ATRAINP-6 ........................................ 13 • MOUNTAIN WARFARE ALLIED TACTICAL PUBLICATION (ATP MW) ..................................... 13 • 2ND NATO MW CONGRESS “RISK MANAGEMENT – ACTING OUT OF KNOWLEDGE” .......... 14 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, EXPERIMENTATION AND LESSONS LEARNED BRANCH ........... 15 MOUNTAIN WARFARE CONCEPT ...................................................................................................... 15 AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT PROJECT .................................................................................. 16 3 NATO MOUntaIN WARFARE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE MOUNTAIN WARFARE BATTLE DRESS UNIFORM PROJECT ......................................................... 17 LOAD REDUCTION PROJECT ............................................................................................................. 18 LESSONS LEARNED PROCESS IN THE NATO MW COE .................................................................. 18 EDUCATION AND TRAINING ................................................................................................................ 19 SEMINAR ON ISTAR ARCHITECTURE IN MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS ............................................ 19 MOUNTAINEERING COLLABORATIVE TRAINING ........................................................................... 24 NATO MW COE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT .......................... 24 MAIN PROJECTS OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING BRANCH IN 2019 ................................. 25 MAIN EVENTS IN 2018 ........................................................................................................................... 27 MAIN ACTIVITIES IN 2019 ..................................................................................................................... 45 CONTACT INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................... 46 This publication is produced by the NATO MW COE and is intended for external use. The information contained in this publication does not represent any official position of NATO policies and is designed to provide an independent analysis and position of the NATO MW COE. Photos front and back page: © IAAMS, ITA-A. 4 FOREWORD Located in Poljče, a small village in the Gorenjska region of Slovenia, the NATO Mountain Warfare Centre of Excellence (NATO MW COE) is a multi- nationally sponsored and accredited international military institution which offers recognized expertise and experience for the benefit of the Alliance, especially in support of its transformation endeavours. It provides opportunities to enhance education and training, to improve interoperability and capabilities, to assist in doctrine development, and to test and validate concepts through experimentation in mountain warfare. The NATO MW COE is not part of the NATO Command Structure (NCS), COL Boštjan Blaznik, SVN but forms part of the wider framework supporting the NATO Command NATO MW COE Director Arrangements (NCA). The NATO MW COE represents a core element with the required professional skills to develop standardized training. It is organized so as to allow the functioning of three pillars: Concept Development, Experimentation and Lessons Learned; Education and Training; and Doctrine and Standardization. The NATO MW COE was established in order to contribute to the transformation and adaptation of the Alliance’s capabilities which enable its forces to better operate in the mountain environment. The NATO MW COE incorporates a professional core that ensures and develops the COL Alberto Zamboni, ITA subject matter expertise to meet the requirements of mountain warfare NATO MW COE Deputy Director /COS challenges. This enhances the ability of individuals and military units to engage in mountain warfare, as well as the Alliance’s readiness to operate in a mountain environment. All the nations which have joined the NATO MW COE, as well as many other NATO and Partner Nations, have their own highly developed national mountain warfare capabilities. As part of the NATO MW COE concept, the Centre’s task is to develop capabilities ready to be used in NATO operations. Through implementing the NATO MW COE Programme of Work, the Centre will strive to meet and set standards and continue to foster interoperability, with the goal of upgrading the knowledge of mountain warfare already existing at the national level and also within NATO, and integrating it into the Alliance and Partnerships. We are strongly convinced that all of this would not be possible without our qualified and dedicated staff members, who put great effort in contributing to the promotion and operation of the NATO MW COE, and sharing their expertise. 5 NATO MOUntaIN WARFARE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE MISSION AND VISION The mission of the NATO MW COE is to assist NATO member states, partners, other countries and international organizations in order to enhance mountain warfare capabilities through the following core areas: • The development of mountain warfare-specific doctrine and tactics, • Concept development and experimentation, • The mountain warfare lessons learned process, • Education and training, • Support of capability development. The vision of the NATO MW COE is to be the hub for mountain warfare expertise in the NATO community. ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE In accordance with the Operational Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the Steering Committee (SC), composed of the representatives of the Sponsoring Nations (SNs), acts as the sole governing body of the NATO MW COE. The SC is permanently chaired by Slovenia, which also acts as the Framework Nation (FN). The NATO MW COE Director is responsible to and reports to the SC. The SC provides tasking to the Director as well as direction, guidance and advice to the effective execution of his mission, including the Centre’s Management. There is neither a direct command and control relationship between the NATO MW COE and the NATO Command Structure, nor any command and control relationship between the FN and the NATO MW COE. These respective relationships are set out by the Functional MOU and appropriate arrangements. Taking into consideration that the overall responsibility for the COE’s coordination, employment, and concept and capability development within NATO lies with the HQ Supreme Allied Command Transformation (SACT), the SNs establish a clear functional relationship with the HQ SACT. The HQ SACT forwards requests from NATO for the NATO MW COE’s services and products. The NATO MW COE responds to them after they have been approved by the SC and included as activities in the Centre’s Annual Programmes of Work. STEERING COMMITTEE DIRECTOR CSEL / DIRECTOR‘S ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR / CHIEF OF STAFF DIRECTOR΄S GROUP BUDFIN CELL DOCTRINE AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING AND SUPPORT STANDARDIZATION EXPERIMENTATION AND EDUCATION BRANCH BRANCH LESSONS LEARNED BRANCH BRANCH 6 DOCTRINE AND STANDARDIZATION BRANCH I) MAIN PROJECTS OF THE DOCTRINE AND STANDARDIZATION BRANCH IN 2018 ATRAINP-6 DEVELOPMENT The most important MW COE project in 2018 was the development of the first Mountain Warfare standard, AtrainP-6 (Allied Training Publication), which has concluded its writing round. After four writing sessions held in Poljče this year, a draft version was sent to the NATO Standardization Office (NSO) in Brussels to be reviewed and put on the NSO website. Since January 2019 the AtrainP-6 draft version has been published on the NSO website in the MJSB Forum, thus enabling nations to make comments or endorse it. It is important to highlight once again that the publication will become a significant part of the Alliance’s architecture and contributes greatly to its interoperability. The blurry grey zone of Mountain Warfare is developing a clearer shape, and is going to be much more visible through publications that are to come in the near future. Thanks go to all co-writers (18 SME’s from 7 countries); a great job was done, even though there is some time yet before this publication’s promulgation. Figure 1: Workflow of AtrainP-6 7 NATO MOUntaIN WARFARE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE 1ST MOUNTAIN WARFARE CONGRESS – “MOUNTAIN WARFARE AND LEADERSHIP” Figure 2: Leadership role The first NATO Mountain Warfare Congress (12-15 June 2018) was entitled “Science