NATO Substance Nuance And Your Success Organization Structure

NATO Substance, Nuance, And Your Success Organization, Structure, Decision Making Discussion with JRAC July 23, 2009

SUCCESS is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)

the most important word in NATO is. . .

CONSENSUS and it is NOT easy to obtain

THIS IS NOT THE NATO OF THE 20 TH CENTURY

Agenda The NATO Treaty NATO Organization, structures, decision-making, operations and issues EU – comparisons, structures Free-range discussion

WORKING AT AN INTERNATIONAL LOCATION WWW. NATO. INT

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. , writer

NATO “Truths” PERCEPTION EQUALS REALITY RHETORIC DOES NOT EQUAL RESOURCES NATO DOES NOT EQUAL THE USA PERCEPTION DOES NOT EQUAL REALITY

Strategic listening is critical to your success

NATO Treaty signed in Washington, 4 April 1949 • Articles • Sovereign Nations • Consultation • Three Musketeers. . . “the REAL Story” • Open to the Future

Article 5 (paragraph 1) The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all, and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually, and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE (SHAPE) ALLIED COMMAND OPERATIONS MONS, BELGIUM ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION (ACT) NORFOLK, VA USA

NATO in Europe

WHAT IS WHERE ? The Netherlands NATO HQ Amsterdam Rotterdam Belgium SHAPE – ACO ALLIED COMMAND OPERATIONS Brussels Mons Luxembourg

WHAT IS WHERE ? SACT Norfolk, VA SACT – SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER TRANSFORMATION ACT – ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION

TERMINOLOGY • North Atlantic Council (NAC) • Defence Planning Committee (DPC) • International Staff (IS) • National Missions to NATO (Perm. Reps) • • THE “MISSION”

TERMINOLOGY • Military Committee (MC) • International Military Staff (IMS) • Delegations to the NATO Military Committee (MC) • Military Representatives (MILREPS)

NATO Organisation Civil Organisation International Staff and Committees NAC and DPC Sec Gen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Sec Gen Designate Anders Rasmussen Military Organisation Military Committee CMC Admiral Giampaolo Di. Paola GEN James Mattis USMC, SACT (COM USJFCOM) International Military Staff Strategic commands ADM James Stavridis USN, SACEUR (COM USEUCOM)

NATO / EAPC UNCLASSIFIED NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL Decisions by NAC highest authority consensus NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL SG CMC Perm Reps represent all elements of their So. C Political control of the military at all times

United States REPRESENTATION OSD STATE JCS TANK US DELEGATION MILREP IN AT Ambassador N O RD CO IO AT IN IS RD Defense Advisor GUIDANCE NAC POLICY O CO IO N US MISSION MC ADVICE SACEUR/SACT GUIDANCE IMS

ACO Command Structure SHAPE (HQ for ACO) Mons, BE Joint Command LISBON HQ = Headquarters ACO = Allied Command operations JFC = Joint Force Commander CC = Component Commander L = land M = Maritime JFC HQ NAPLES JFC HQ BRUNSSUM CC MARITIME HQ Naples IT CC MARITIME HQ Northwood UK CC LAND HQ Madrid SP CC LAND HQ Heidelberg GE CC AIR HQ Izmir TU CC AIR HQ RAMSTEIN GE

Decision Making Consensus – it takes 28 nations… Footnoting Inquisitiveness Silence procedure

INQUISITIVENESS Which is deadlier?

NATO Decision Making: The Silence Procedure NAC IF SILENCE IS NOT BROKEN Task Military Committee IMSWM issued under Silence Procedures • IMSWM goes forward as a MC Memorandum (MCM) to the NAC as military advice IMSCOM IMS Communiqué SC Response ACO / ACT IF SILENCE IS BROKEN – BY THE USA, FOR EXAMPLE • USMILREP sends USM to CMC • CMC convenes MC NATO’S 28 NATIONS • If consensus is reached, MCM is sent to NAC as military advice • If consensus is not reached, CMC submits CMCM to Sec. Gen as military advice

European and NATO Co-op Structures ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (OSCE) (56) EURO-ATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL (EAPC) (49) NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) (28) Andorra Holy See Canada Monaco Albania Armenia 1 EUROPEAN UNION (EU) (27) Belgium Bulgaria Germany Czech Rep Hungary Italy Estonia Latvia France Serbia Bosnia. Hezrzegovina Montenegro Georgia 1, ID Greece Denmark Belarus 1 Azerbaijan 1 Croatia San Marino Cyprus Turkey PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE (Pf. P) (20) United States Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Luxembourg Portugal Romania Lithuania Kazakhstan 1 Slovenia Spain Finland Kyrgyz Republic 1 Ukraine 1 Ireland FYROM* Uzbekistan 1 Slovakia Sweden Malta Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) (7) Algeria Israel Mauritania Egypt Jordan Tunisia Morocco Planning and Review Process (PARP) (13) Tajikistan 1 Austria United Kingdom Netherlands Poland Switzerland Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) (4) Bahrain Qatar Kuwait UAE EU Aspirants(3) Moldova 1 Russia 1 Global Partners Contributors to NATO ops Singapore Australia 1 Turkmenistan 1 South Korea Japan New Zealand Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Member (12) * Turkey recognizes the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by its constitutional name Membership Action Plan + PARP (1)

Points to Ponder - What do “Global operations” mean today? - Global challenges: Burdens, Opportunities, or both? - Never underestimate the power of trade - Are the media the battlefields of the 21 st C. ? - - Determining the ‘truth’ Knowledge of the cultural terrain can be as important – sometimes even more important – than knowledge of the geographic terrain

Points to Ponder Demography National, racial, cultural, religious, sex, age, immigrant populations Health Issues Globalisation – information, access et al De-globalisation – non-state actors and issues Natural resources Oil, gas, water Wealth – What, Whose, for what purpose?

Population Comparison United States: 306, 880, 794 ( 4. 5%) European Union (27): 491, 018, 683 ( 7. 3%) Africa: 934, 282, 427 ( 13. 8%) India: 1, 147, 995, 904 ( 17. 0%) China: 1, 330, 044, 605 ( 19. 6%) World: 6, 770, 237, 885