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| Anti-Piracy Goes Hi-Tech |
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07 Jan - La Spezia - A maritime safety conference, held at the NATO Underwater Research Centre, included briefings on mine countermeasures, port protection and terrorism. Many of the briefings were written weeks or months in advance but the piracy and ship protection presentation by Dr. Ronald Kessel was particularly relevant, with one ship hijacked just last week and a foiled attempt on a cruise liner taking place only a day before the conference.
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| A Success in Transformation / Asset in Operations |
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07 Jan - SHAPE - Big black cars under federal police escort are not precisely an uncommon sight at SHAPE with dignitaries visiting on a regular base. But a car under police escort pulling into the engineering (200) draws a few onlookers. Especially if the building being pulled in front of is a recently refurbished building with a meters high fence and a state-of-the-art security system. The principal of the main vehicle is Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola of Italy, recently appointed Chairman of the Military Committee for a visit of the newly housed NATO Special Forces Coordination Centre (NSCC).
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| SACEUR address to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
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19 Dec. - “Transnational terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, piracy, climate change and energy security, cyber attacks, to name just a few – the threats to our collective security in our globalized world – that do not stop at national borders and cannot be successfully addressed by any nation alone. NATO’s role is essential – it has proven its worth in confronting and defeating these and other threats and challenges.” said General John Craddock, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, during a speech to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on the 18th of November.
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| 2008 Year of the NCO recap |
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| 16 Dec. - Leadership and professionalism are just a couple of characteristics that come to mind when describing a Non Commissioned Officer. Those and many other positive attributes are used to describe the numerous NCOs who stood out from the rest with North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s designation of 2008 as the Year of the NCO (YNCO). The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General John Craddock, along with the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Gen James N. Mattis, chose this year to communicate to key audiences that NATO values the leadership provided by NCOs in ground operations and that all NCOs should be trained to make decisions and encouraged to use initiative.
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| Successful completion of NATO mission Operation Allied Provider |
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12 Dec. - Mons, Belgium – NATO completes its mission to escort World Food Programme (WFP) chartered vessels delivering humanitarian aid today. NATO provided an escort on eight occasions which resulted in the safe delivery of 30,000 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid to Somalia.
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| 551 Iraqi Police Officers graduated from Carabinieri training |
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| Graduates of the Iraqi National Police 6th Leadership Course marching at the Graduation Ceremony |
2 Dec. - Baghdad – 551 Iraqi Police Officers graduated from the Police Leadership Course carried out by Italian Carabinieri under NATO Training Mission in Iraq at Camp Dublin, Baghdad.
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| All change at the NATO Programming Centre, Glons |
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28 Nov. - Glons, Belgium – Today at the Kazerne Ambiorix in Tongeren, Belgium, the NATO Programming Centre (NPC) Glons conducted a ceremony marking the transfer of tasking authority from Allied Command Operations (ACO) to the NATO Communication and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA).
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| NATO Thanks NCO’s on Recognition Day |
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| SACEUR, General Craddock, is keeping his speech for the NCO's selected to represent their countries for the Year of the NCO during the reception hosted by General Craddock and CSM Bartelle. |
9 Dec. - SHAPE – To cap off the Year of the NCO, nominees from 24 NATO countries made their way to the SHAPE headquarters in Mons, Belgium to attend a special event. They were treated to a tour of the headquarters and provided with insights into the way that NATO enables nations to work together on operations with a number of high level command briefings. The day was brought to a close with a reception hosted by SACEUR, General John Craddock.
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| Ukrainian ship joins NATO Operation Active Endeavour |
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17 Nov. - Naples, Italy - 14 November 2008. URS Ternopil will operate, for the second time, under the NATO flag and stand ready to counter the common threat of terrorism at sea, as the Ukrainian ship will today contribute to Operation Active Endeavour (OAE), the NATO maritime contribution to the fight against terrorism, until 09 December 08.
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SACEUR's Quotes of Note |
"The current counter-narcotics effort (in Afghanistan) is ineffective. The money from the narcotics trade is feeding the insurgency. It buys weapons and pays fighters - the weapons and fighters that kill soldiers and Afghan citizens alike. It is a cancer, fuelling the insurgency, contributing to corruption, impeding legitimate commerce, and undermining governance. Indeed NATO must step up to this task."
"I'm not talking about crop eradication but about destroying the ability by Taliban to buy materiel for IEDs, the ability by Taliban to buy the trigger."
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