FOREWORD
ALLIED RAPID
REACTION CORPS
Ready for Today - Evolving for Tomorrow
2017 was a seminal year for HQ ARRC. We remained on
standby as the Land Component HQ for the NATO Response
Force and tested our ability to deploy at speed through a
successful test exercise to Bulgaria and Romania alongside
the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (Land).
2017 also marked the first full year of our 4-year Recalibration
Plan, aimed at developing us into a modern, agile Corps
HQ capable of operating and winning in the Contemporary
Operating Environment. This, coupled with our burgeoning
Concept Development and Experimentation Plan, an
innovative Terrain Walk and our extensive Training Support
to other formations, have all served to identify myriad lessons
from which we, and others across NATO, can learn.
The articles contained in this Journal are necessarily wide-
ranging and reflect many of those lessons. They’ve been
written by men and women from across the 23 Participating
Nations who care and think deeply about their chosen
profession, and to whom I am extremely grateful.
www.arrc.nato.int
Lt Gen Tim Radford CB DSO OBE
Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
/Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
@HQARRC
HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
/HQARRC
[email protected]
+44 (0)1452 718500
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