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XXI MAGAZINE OF THE EU MILITARY STAFF, EEAS, BRUSSELS SPRING/SUMMER 2016 ISSUE #21 EUNAVFOR MED OP SOPHIA HRVP F. MOGHERINI arrives on ITS Cavour EUMS MARKS 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2001 - 2016 EU MILITARY STAFF CONTRIBUTING TO EU FOREIGN POLICY OVERVIEW OF THE EUNAVFOR ATALANTA EUROPEAN SECURITY OPERATIONS & MISSIONS INVESTING IN THE & DEFENCE P.20 OF THE EU - P.1 INTEGRATED APPROACH - P.6 Dear Readers, We hope that you find IMPETUS 21 useful in increasing your situational awareness of what the EU Military Staff are doing, including EU Operations and Missions. If you have any comments on any of the articles, or indeed any suggestions in how IMPETUS could be improved, we would be very happy to receive both at the below email address. Thanks, the Editor. CONTENT Overview of the Operations and Missions of the European Union - April 2016 1 Congratulations to the EU Military Staff on your 15th Anniversary - 2001 / 2016 2 By Federica Mogherini High Representative Vice President Views after 3 years 4 By Lt Gen Wosolsobe Director General EU Military Staff EUNAVFOR ATALANTA: Investing in the Integrated Approach 6 By Mr Paul Mitcham, Operation ATALANTA Politial Advisor Thoughts from their time in Office By previous Director Generals 8 I have served 15 stars! 13 By Christine Delgado - Personal Assistant to DG EUMS Global Memo 14 The European Security Defence College and the EU Military Staff - Very good co-operation for the benefit of CSDP 18 By Jochen Rehrl ESDC The European Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy and its implications on defence 20 By Michel Barnier, Security and Defence Advisor, European Commission Multinational logistics support - a small world and a big problem 22 By LtCol Luca PASSANTE, Cdr Conleth BURNS, Maj. Alfredo VASQUEZ RAMOS Photos over 15 years of EUMS 24 EUMS Structure 26 Editor: Lt Col John O’Loghlen All rights reserved. Public Relation & Information Officer, EUMS, EEAS Edition/Creation E-mail: [email protected] OIB European commission http://eeas.europa.eu.eums Impetus is a Magazine published by the EU Military Staff, EEAS Visitors and Postal address: AN PE UN O I Av. De Cortenbergh 150 O R U N B-1040 Brussels E TRAINING MISSION MALI Belgium The fact that an article appears in this magazine does not indicate official approval of the views expressed by the author. Cover photograph: EUNAVFOR Med Op SOPHIA Overview of the Operations and Missions of the European Union EUAM 2016 EUFOR ALTHEA Ukraine EUMM Bosnia Since 2014 Georgia Herzegovina Since 2008 6 on-going military missions Since 2004 EUOPL PROXIMA EUPM FYROM EUJUST THEMIS 11 on-going civilian missions BiH 2004-2005 Georgia EULEX EUPAT 2003-2012 2004-2005 EUPOL FYROM Kosovo 2006 Since 2008 Afghanistan Since 2007 More than 6,000 people currently deployed. EUPOL COPPS EUJUST LEX Iraq Palestinian 2005-2013 completed missions since 2003. EU NAVFOR Territories 15 MED Since 2006 EUBAM CONCORDIA Since2015 FYROM Libya 2003 Since 2013 80,000 people deployed since 2003: soldiers, policemen and rule of law experts. EUTM EUBAM RAFAH Mali EUFOR TCHAD Palestinian Since 2013 Tchad/CAR 2008-2009 Territories Objectives: keeping the peace, preventing conicts Since 2005 EUAVSEC strengthening international security, supporting the rule of South Sudan 2012-2014 law and prevention of piracy. EU SSR EU NAVFOR Guinea Bissau 2008-2010 EUMAM RCA Atalanta EUCAP Central African Since 2008 SAHEL Republic Since 2015 EUFOR RCA Mali Central African AMM Since 2014 Republic EUTM Monitoring Mission Since 2014 Somalia Aceh/Indonesia ARTEMIS Since 2010 2005-2006 DR Congo 2003 All information correct asofAprilAll information 2016 EUCAP SAHEL EUPOL Legend DR Congo EUPOL Niger 2007-2014 Ongoing Completed Since 2012 Kinshasa DR Congo EUCAP 2005-2007 EUFOR DR Congo NESTOR DR Congo Military Operations 2006 Somalia, Seychelles EUSEC Since 2012 RD Congo Since 2005 Civilian Missions © European External Action Service© European - EEAS, 2013 1 HRVP Congratulations to the EU Military Staff on your15 th Anniversary - 2001 / 2016 BY FEDERICA MOGHERINI HIGH REPRESENTATIVE AND VICE PRESIDENT Federica Mogherini attends Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C. This fifteenth anniversary of the European Union’s one month we managed not just to build political consen- Military Staff comes at a moment of impressive sus on the operation: we identified capabilities and moved challenges and important achievements. During quickly to the force generation process. On 22 June the the first eighteen months of my mandate I have had Council was able to formally launch Eunavfor Med – or the opportunity to follow closely the Military Staff’s Operation Sophia, as we now call it. Two months after work, to appreciate their professionalism and to rely the process had started, the first ships operating under on their expertise. The preparation and launch of the EU naval force flag were sailing the Mediterranean. Operation Sophia makes for a great example. It is a strikingly short time if we compare it to previous European deployments, but also in comparison with After the tragedy on 16 April 2015 in the Strait of Sicily, other international military missions. And this would when over 800 people drowned in a single shipwreck, we not have been possible without our Military Staff and its could wait no more. Our response to the migration crisis planning capabilities. had already been too slow. One month later, the Foreign Affairs Council took the political decision to launch a Your involvement with Operation Sophia was not over naval operation to disrupt the human smugglers’ busi- with the preparations, and it is still crucial. The opera- ness model and to save lives. Try and look back at the tion’s first phase was devoted to intelligence gathering, in comments appearing on the media during those days: which you also played an important role. It was then time everyone was so convinced that our response would take for the Force Generation Conference aimed at defining 2 several more months to be agreed upon and set up. But in the Member States’ contribution to the following phase EUMS Federica Mogherini Congratulations to the EU arrives to visit EUNAVFOR th MED Operation Military Staff on your15 Sophia Anniversary - 2001 / 2016 BY FEDERICA MOGHERINI HIGH REPRESENTATIVE AND VICE PRESIDENT of the operation. The readers of “Impetus” know how The Staff’s activities include early warning (via the Sin- much work was necessary to make this happen, and I gle Intelligence Analysis Capacity), situation assessment, shall thank once again the Military Staff for their precious strategic planning, the work on Communications and efforts. Operation Sophia currently relies on assets from Information Systems, concept development, training twenty-four countries from all corners of our Union: this and education, and the support to joint actions with our is our Union at its best – truly united in building peace partners. In concert with the EU Military Committee and solidarity. So far our ships have seized over a hundred and EEAS partners, the Military Staff helps foster the boats, have arrested tens of traffickers and saved over conditions for the military to conduct their operations 13,000 human lives. and missions, together with their civilian partners in the field. If security reasons deny others the ability to operate, Of course, Operation Sophia is not alone in addressing the military will stand and act as necessary, accepting the issue of migrants and refugees – and it could not the related risks. This gives the Military Staff a special suffice alone. On the contrary, it shows in very concrete responsibility. terms how the European Union’s “comprehensive ap- proach” works. Some of our civilian missions are also Over the past 15 years, the Military Staff has developed focusing on migration. EUCAP Sahel Niger has been from a small interim Planning Cell into a more mature strengthened, and I personally visited the mission in structure, which has gained great respect inside the in- September last year. Should the Libyan national unity stitutions and outside Brussels. The EU Military Staff government ask for further engagement in supporting is now an integral part of our External Action Service, and training their security forces, we stand ready to re- where it has become a key and valued player. Together inforce EUBAM Libya and to work together on a new with our other crisis management instruments, it has be- civilian mission, to provide advice and build capacities come crucial not only in crisis prevention, management in the fields of counter-terrorism, border management and response, but also in our Union’s relations with our and the fight against human traffickers. Operation Sophia international partners. could also contribute to improving the broader security situation, by supporting the legitimate Libyan authorities. Wherever I travel in the world, from Latin America to Stabilising Libya and its borders is crucial for the region South-East Asia, I see a growing demand for our Europe- and for Europe. The military instrument – coordinated an Union to take up its role as a global security provider. by the Military Staff – is indispensable to our foreign This is what our partners ask from us, but this is also our policy, as part of a broader strategy based on international clear interest as Europeans: we all know that instability in diplomacy and humanitarian aid, development cooper- our region and beyond has a direct impact on the daily ation and trade, national assets and common European lives of European citizens. responses. As I congratulate the whole Military Staff on this anni- Of course, the work of the Military Staff goes well beyond versary – the Director General, General Wosolsobe, with Sophia. For instance, focusing on our most recent deci- all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and civilian staff – let sions, the Staff’s capabilities are important in the transi- me also remind all of us that the road ahead is still very tion from the military advisory mission to the Central Af- long.