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“COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH’’

NATO RAPID DEPLOYABLE CORPS - GREECE

Col Dimitrios Grousouzakos

15’

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Introduction

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6 Questions+ 6 Answers=Comprehensive Approach

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HowHow

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WhereWhere

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• Changing Global Development – Challenging Strategic Environment

• New Risks and Threats – Broader Missions and Operations

• Different World – Different Ways -Distinct Means

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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail”

Psychologist Abraham Maslow

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“The shooting side of the business is only 25% of the

trouble and the other 75% lies in getting the people of this country

behind us”

General Sir Gerald Templer

Malaya 1952

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Alliance Nations’

Instruments of Power

Alliance Nations’

Instruments of Power

Political

Military

Civil

Economic

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Economic

• Conflict Prevention and Crisis Resolution• Peace keeping – Humanitarian Operations –

Disaster Relief • Stabilisation Activities and [Military Support to]

Reconstruction Efforts

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Riga Summit Declaration 29 Nov 06

• No security = No development in Afghanistan (Para 6)

• Today requires a comprehensive approach by the international community (Para 10)

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A Comprehensive Approach is a means to ensure a coordinated and coherent response to a crisis by all actors involved.

Definition

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Three Aspects

• Improving crisis management instruments

• Improving Alliance’s practical co-operation at all levels

• Enhancing NATO’s ability to bring military support to stabilisation operations and reconstruction efforts in all phases of a conflict

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, at the GLOBSEC Conference 17 Jan 2008

Who

• Nations-International Organizations -Local Actors

• Two points• “…NATO cannot deliver this Comprehensive

Approach all on its own …”

• “… it is not NATO that can lead this effort: that is the United Nations’ role…”

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4 Main Strands

• Planning and Conduct of Operations

• Lessons Learned, Training and Exercises

• Enhancing Cooperation with External Actors

• Public Messaging

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Planning and Conduct of Operations (Samples)

• Adjust NATO’s operational planning procedures

• Support other international actors

• Develop and discuss with other international actors proposals to engage the local actors

• Compile a list of national experts & liaise with expert international organizations

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How

Lessons Learned, Training and Exercises (Samples)

• Internal Training

• External Training with the others actors

• Active participation of other international actors in NATO’s crisis management exercises

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How

• To improve co-operation

• Call for regular consultative seminars &conferences

• Regular meetings NATO SG/ Heads of International Actors

• Improves Liaison with UN & EU

• Conducts regular staff talks

• Exchanges regularly early warning and assessment information

Enhancing Cooperation with External Actors (Samples)

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How

• In order to reinforce its public message of commitment to working with players involved:

• Substantiate the overall international efforts

• Share information strategies and campaigns

• Reinforce the NATO media operations capability

Public Messaging (Samples)

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Warfighting Security Stabilisation Reconstruction

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Operational Spectrum

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Three Levels

• Strategic level

• Operational level

• Tactical level

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• The Comprehensive Approach is to contact, to communicate and to consult as well as to coordinate, to collaborate and to cooperate

• with Nations Partners, International / Governmental / Non-Governmental Organizations, and local actors

• through internal improvements within the Alliance and

• external relationships between NATO and other involved and/or engaged actors

• ultimately for their mutual benefit or as a minimum to de-conflict actions and end states.

Conclusion

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Conclusion