NATO command structure : considerations for the future / W. Bruce Weinrod and Charles L. Barry.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Weinrod, W. Bruce, author.

Barry, Charles L., 1946- author.

Contributor:

National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, issuing body.

Series:

Defense & technology papers ; no. 75.

Defense & technology papers ; no. 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Evaluation.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Reorganization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Forecasting.

Administrative agencies--Reorganization.

Evaluation.

Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 34 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization command structure

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2010.

Summary:

This paper explores potential future reforms of the NATO command structure. The intent is to stimulate thought on the current structure's fit to oversee the forces and operations of a growing array of NATO missions. From capacity building with partners to peace operations, humanitarian assistance, and combat operations, Alliance forces are continuously engaged in multiple theaters. These challenges demand a command structure with organizational flexibility, an agile and competent international staff, highly integrated information systems, and deployable elements to accompany mobile forces for sustained periods of time. The context of the next reform of the command structure is a combination of its history, including earlier reforms, and its current and anticipated future operations. This paper discusses how to think about command structure reform in all its facets. It is a mission-based analysis that assesses the roles of component and joint commands, of ACO and ACT. It offers illustrative options for the future and indicates which of these might better meet NATO's future requirement in terms of being minimally viable and capable of carrying out core missions.

Contents:

The enduring rationale for a NATO command structure "fit for purpose"

History of NATO command structure

The 2003 NATO command structure

Command structure review 2004-2008

Future command structure reforms : beyond a new strategic concept

Options for a future ACO

Reforms of the ACT structure

Additional ways to achieve efficiencies

Command structure geographic footprint

Interrelationship of NATO command structure and the strategic concept

Next steps.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on November 16, 2010).

"September 2010."

Series from web site.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Weinrod, W. Bruce. NATO command structure

OCLC:

681544235