JULY/OCTOBER 2013 • ISSUE NO. 25 www.jwc.nato.int JWC’s 10th ANNIVERSARY Special Edition 2003–2013 One Team. Training NATO. Transforming Warfare. Securing The Threethe SwordsAlliance. Magazine 25/2013 1 JWC Public Affairs Office (PAO) Cover _ Design by PO Box 8080, Eikesetveien Brandon Chhoeun 4068 Stavanger, Norway Assistant Technician Tel: +(47) 52 87 9130/9131/9132 Media Simulation Section Internet: www.jwc.nato.int Joint Exercise Division Joint Warfare Centre facebook.com/jointwarfarecentre youtube.com/jointwarfarecentre Happy 10TH! CONTENTS July/October 2013 • Issue No. 25 BRAVO, 10 FOIS! 3 Foreword: H.E. Ine Eriksen Søreide IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE for me to welcome Norwegian Minister of Defence you to the JWC’s tenth anniversary special edi- 5 Foreword: General Jean-Paul Paloméros tion of The Three Swords magazine. I think you 7 Foreword: Major General Erhard Buehler, will find this edition to be packed with useful and Commander JWC informative art icles about our past, present and 8 10 Years of JWC future. I would also like to take this opportunity to 19 The House that Norge Built welcome our large population of newco mers. As Cdr Keith Sweeney, GBR N I am closing in on my se cond year at the JWC, I 24 Transformation Link Between ACO and ACT can truly tell you that you are in for a great assign- Lt Col Geoffroy Petit, FRA A ment, both perso nally and professionally. At JWC 26 Exclusive Interview: Mr. Per Christensen opportunities abound, but it is easy to sometimes get lost in the fray. Don’t let this 27 CFI at the JWC happen! If this is your first NATO assignment it can be somewhat bewildering at Lt Col Barrett Burns, USA A times, but that is far outweighed by the enriching experience you get from work- 30 The Evolution of ISAF Training ing with people from 15 different NATO countries, not to forget our Partnership 35 OPR Interview (ISAF) for Peace (PfP) staff officer from Austria. I also encourage you to benefit from 38 The Role of JWC SMEs your time here by enjoying all that Norway, in general, and the Stavanger area, in Lt Col Francis Andrews particular, have to offer. If you prick up your ears you will quickly notice a diverse 40 A Decade of Response: NRF community of different nationalities outside of the JWC too. It is truly a beautiful Wg Cdr Mark Attrill, GBR AF country and if you are an outdoor enthusiast, you are in for a real treat! Again, 44 OPR Interview (NRF) for the newcomers, I would encourage you to stop by the PAO and pick up some 46 10 Years of SMC4 previous editions of our magazine, which are full of useful information to help you Lt Col Dieter Heumueller, DEU AF “get up to speed” on who we are, what we do and how we do it. To the veterans, 61 JALLC: A Decade of Conflict as always, your input to this magazine is always welcome and it is the cornerstone Chuck Ridgway of its success. I look forward to working with all of you! CDR DANIEL GAGE, U.S. NAVY JWC CHIEF PAO THE THREE SWORDS JWC PAO: Thanks CDR Daniel Gage, U.S. Navy THE THREE SWORDS is the Joint Warfare Maj Arne K. Olsen, NOR A Centre’s authorized magazine published three Nils Skarland, Inci Kucukaksoy, NATO Civilian times a year by the Public Affairs Office. It Deputy Director Sonia Bjerke Abdelmaguid, NATO Civilian presents a compilation of articles, editorials, Department of opinions, news and general information related Management and Editors to the Centre as well as a variety of key defence Financial Governance, Inci Kucukaksoy and security issues. Opinions expressed in this Royal Norwegian Sonia Bjerke Abdelmaguid magazine are those of the authors and do not Ministry of Defence necessarily represent the policies and points of Layout view of NATO. The Editor reserves the right to Tomasz Krolikowski Inci Kucukaksoy edit or shorten submissions. Sgt Andreas Henriksen, NOR AF 2 The Three Swords Magazine 25/2013 10th ANNIVERSARY H.E. INE ERIKSEN SØREIDE Minister of Defence Norway T YOUR TENTH an- The robustness of NATO is reflected at niversary, we all know home. There is massive cross-party sup- that those years have port for NATO membership in Norway, been quite special. The and there is appreciation of NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre’s presence in Norway where the JWC is ten years in Stavanger have coincided a major flag-carrier today. NATO has Awith ten years of Allied efforts that were been and will remain the cornerstone of never planned. Whether with NATO Norwegian defence and security policy. or otherwise, crisis management is, of Likewise, broad, cross-party support in course, never planned, just as no cri- a NATO Nation gives strength to NATO. sis is planned. In this context the JWC r esponsively adapted to our challenges. Your new facilities were common fund- Although the JWC was neither intended ed by consensus in NATO. Our common nor built for NATO’s most important NATO programmes have become small task of the decade, ISAF, you made a compared to what they were before, substantial contribution, mostly in in- but it remains an essential point of Al- terim facilities. You prepared your train- lied robustness that we have common ing audiences for many challenges they capabilities and output. Our common were to meet on station with good effect, command structure is one of our key much appreciated by the personnel, and Photography © Asgeir Spange Brekke, FD and unique capabilities. Such real capa- obviously increasing our operational ef- bilities require real funding. NATO is no fectiveness. Beyond that you helped plan and implement the new longer building military airfields in Norway, but our national com- facilities and moved your activities there. mitment to strong common capabilities will remain firm. Like every other Ally, what we pay in is a fraction, and what we receive is a NATO is unique in making it possible for Allies to solve real problems full capability and force multiplier. Similarly, we are fully committed, together. There is the consensus principle which facilitates robust de- for e xample, to provide NATO with Alliance Ground Surveillance cisions, compromise, contributions and common effort. When deci- (AGS), a capability which is intended to serve common require- sion-making is difficult, working out the decisions may cause some to ments rather than individual nations. dream of a simpler state, seeing the consensus principle as a problem, where some shortcut should be taken to overcome objections. Is our Making good use of the JWC for ISAF was a clear demonstration of consensus principle a problem? Well, only if someone is in for another how NATO can adapt. It showed the value of this modern, forward- purpose than to be an Ally. But that is not what NATO is about. The looking type of facility. The JWC has a NATO-wide, modern task purpose of being Allies is a simple matter to understand; one for all ahead, to facilitate and build know-how. I trust you will keep con- and all for one. In NATO every Ally has a say, and everyone under- tributing to our entire Alliance, making sure that lessons are learned, stands that behaving responsibly towards each other is the key to be- developed and disseminated. I also trust that you will take initiative ing credible Allies. NATO has been tested and has risen to the new beyond your received mission and show possibilities to take NATO challenges of the last two decades. All small or large nations have been forward. With this, I congratulate the Joint Warfare Centre with a going in together, in particular in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya. successful ten years, and wish you all the best for the future. The Three Swords Magazine 25/2013 3 From top: SACT entering the Auditorium to preside over the JWC Change of Command Ceremony and presenting the JWC flag to Major General Erhard Buehler, 25 June 2013. Pictures Alf Ove Hansen 10th ANNIVERSARY GENERAL JEAN-PAUL PALOMÉROS French Air Force Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) N THE OCCASION OF effort to maintain the Alliance’s military JWC’s tenth anniversary, effectiveness. This is due in no small part I would like to do like I to the talented men and women of the JWC did for ACT and examine who adapt daily to new developments and JWC’s successful past to work effectively in close collaboration with pull out the evidence of what a bright fu- the wider NATO Community. Oture lies ahead for all JWC staff. I know that the future is already a rea lity Twenty years ago, our forces were pre- for the JWC. The high visibility exercises dominantly Cold War oriented. NATO in 2014 and 2015 are now on almost was preparing for a total war in conti- e veryone’s radar screen: they will be built nental Europe. Then, a fundamental shift around NRF 16 with additional forces o ccurred with the fall of the Berlin Wall. and headquarters coming from our Na- The Alliance started to put a stronger tions. The Military Training and Exercise e mphasis on its ability to project for ces — Programme (MTEP), which is evolving on an expeditionary capability. towards a multi-year, multi-level, joint programme of exercises, involving more Since 2003, or during the last ten years, of the NATO Response Force, has always ACT has played a key role in this Trans- been a key framework for JWC’s day-to- formation, with the indispensable con- day work.