NATO Transformation on Track With NRF Stand-up
NATO Transformation on Track With NRF Stand-up
By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2003 – The new NATO Response Force was officially stood up today during a ceremony held in Brunssum, the Netherlands.
According to a NATO release, U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the alliance's supreme allied commander, handed over the first NRF flag to British Gen. Sir Jack Deverell, commander of Allied Forces North, who will oversee the first two NRF rotations.
"The passing of the colors of the NATO Response Force today marks what I consider to be one of the most important changes in the NATO alliance since the signing of the Washington Treaty over 50 years ago," Jones, who's also the chief of U.S. European Command, noted at the ceremony.
The NRF is envisioned to be a joint-service force capable of quickly deploying outside of NATO's traditional area of operations to combat modern-day threats to security and stability such as international terrorism.
The new military organization is slated to attain full operational capability around the fall of 2006 with about 21,000 air, land, and sea troops. For some time now Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has pushed the U.S. military to transform itself into a more effective, flexible and agile force to deal with new, asymmetrical threats like global terrorism.
In fact, it was Rumsfeld who pointed out the merits of establishing a response unit to Secretary-General George Robertson at an alliance meeting held in Warsaw in September 2002. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2003/n10152003_200310154.html
21K strong rapid responce force...
And kerrys plan was what? oh, yeah..a "Global test" hmmmm...kerry is a FOOL! we are moving forward with national security on a mass scale, we are dispatching our enemies at will, we are securing our future world wide. the only thing kerry could do is bring it all to a crashing halt with his global test.
By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2003 – The new NATO Response Force was officially stood up today during a ceremony held in Brunssum, the Netherlands.
According to a NATO release, U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the alliance's supreme allied commander, handed over the first NRF flag to British Gen. Sir Jack Deverell, commander of Allied Forces North, who will oversee the first two NRF rotations.
"The passing of the colors of the NATO Response Force today marks what I consider to be one of the most important changes in the NATO alliance since the signing of the Washington Treaty over 50 years ago," Jones, who's also the chief of U.S. European Command, noted at the ceremony.
The NRF is envisioned to be a joint-service force capable of quickly deploying outside of NATO's traditional area of operations to combat modern-day threats to security and stability such as international terrorism.
The new military organization is slated to attain full operational capability around the fall of 2006 with about 21,000 air, land, and sea troops. For some time now Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has pushed the U.S. military to transform itself into a more effective, flexible and agile force to deal with new, asymmetrical threats like global terrorism.
In fact, it was Rumsfeld who pointed out the merits of establishing a response unit to Secretary-General George Robertson at an alliance meeting held in Warsaw in September 2002. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2003/n10152003_200310154.html
21K strong rapid responce force...
And kerrys plan was what? oh, yeah..a "Global test" hmmmm...kerry is a FOOL! we are moving forward with national security on a mass scale, we are dispatching our enemies at will, we are securing our future world wide. the only thing kerry could do is bring it all to a crashing halt with his global test.
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