Military Cooperation at LANDCOM
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As Secretary General Stoltenberg stated in a speech to the Atlantic Council in Washington , DC on 06 April 2016 .:
“ In the fight against terrorism , building local capacity is one of the best weapons we have , and the earlier we can do it , the better … while NATO has to remain an expeditionary alliance , able to deploy forces outside our territory , NATO must also become a more effective training alliance ”
LANDCOM currently interacts with 19 partner countries out of a total of 43 NATO partners . LANDCOM support includes not only Mobile Training Teams ( MTTs ), with the main effort provided by the Divisions , but also conducts extensive Operational Capability Concept ( OCC ) activities with 11 NATO partners , in addition to 4 new partners who are scheduled to join the OCC programme in 2017 . The OCC programme is one of NATOs most successful programmes , where partner units achieve interoperability , can participate during NATO exercises and support NATO in operations .
Expert Staff Meetings ( ESM ) are national level meetings held with partners throughout the year , 12 of which are scheduled for 2017 alone . These include a wide variety of countries such as Qatar , Bahrain and Israel . MilCoop activities also include support to the Montenegro Accession and Integration ( A & I ) process , as Montenegro is scheduled to become a full NATO member later this year . LANDCOM has fully integrated three NATO partner staff members , namely Azerbaijan , Kyrgyzstan , and Sweden ; with Ukraine scheduled to provide staff representation this summer .
LANDCOM provides Land Expertise and interoperability to the partner land forces and through this contributes significantly to NATOs core task of Cooperative Security .
SHAPE Military Partnership Directorate Working Group 2016 Tunisia Assesment team
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