4 New Messages
Digest #4768
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Post-Afghan War, NATO Prepares Next Decade Of Combat Operations by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
2
Interview: NATO Will Make Sure That Russia Is An Enemy by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
3
U.S. Marines Train Georgian Instructors For NATO's Afghan War by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
4
U.S. AFRICOM, NATO Train Libyan Proxy Armed Forces by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
Messages
Tue Aug 6, 2013 5:47 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://www.defense.
U.S. Department of Defense
August 5, 2013
Exercises, Training to Posture NATO for Future Challenges
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: Sharpened by the past decade of combat operations, NATO forces are launching an ambitious effort to build on that foundation and to enhance the capabilities of the NATO Response Force, the top U.S. and NATO commander reported.
“After more than 10 years of experience fighting together in Afghanistan, we have achieved an unprecedented level of cohesiveness among allies and partners,” Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, said in his new blog posting.
“We are operating as a seamless integrated team right now, and we aim to maintain this level of cohesion...by intensifying our education, training and exercises across the air, land and sea domains,” he said.
Breedlove, who presided at Aug. 2 ceremonies during which Air Force Gen. Frank Gorenc assumed command of Allied Air Command, U.S. Air Forces Europe and U.S. Air Forces Africa, as well as directorship of the Joint Air Power Competence Center, called air power a key pillar of NATO’s deterrence.
Several upcoming exercises will take the integration demonstrated during Operation Unified Protector in Libya to the next level, with a goal of ensuring the units and Headquarters Air Command are prepared to assume the NATO Response Force mission in 2014, Breedlove reported.
The first of them, Exercise Brilliant Arrow, will kick off later this month in central Norway. Forty fighter aircraft, two airborne early warning platforms and about 800 participants will face a tough, realistic scenario that includes air defense units on the ground, he said.
Breedlove emphasized the importance of ensuring that air power remains ready and capable despite current economic uncertainties. This will be critical, he said, to prepare for the future security environment that will require NATO’s airpower to adapt to the speed and unpredictability of strategic and technological developments.
The general also underscored the continued importance of NATO’s airborne early warning and surveillance and air policing missions and their peacetime role in preserving the integrity of NATO European airspace and safeguarding NATO nations from air attacks.
“But airpower is just one part of the NATO team. We must also train hard on the land and the sea,” Breedlove said.
Exercise Brilliant Mariner, to begin in late September, will focus on training and certifying the readiness of maritime forces for their NATO Response Force rotation, he reported.
On land, Special Forces are preparing for the Exercise Brilliant Sword in Italy in October. The following month, several alliance nations, including the Baltic states and Poland, will participate in Exercise Steadfast Jazz. That exercise will bring together air, land, maritime and Special Forces components, as well as the headquarters staff from Joint Force Command Brunssum, which will lead NATO joint operations next year.
Breedlove emphasized the importance of exercises to NATO readiness.
“My aim is to make sure that our NRF deployable headquarters and troops are ready to deal with any situation in any environment,” he said. “The NRF and associated training is essential in maintaining and enhancing the ability of forces from across the alliance to work together.”
That, Breedlove emphasized, “will be increasingly important as our mission in Afghanistan winds down and we prepare to meet future challenges.”
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U.S. Department of Defense
August 5, 2013
Exercises, Training to Posture NATO for Future Challenges
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: Sharpened by the past decade of combat operations, NATO forces are launching an ambitious effort to build on that foundation and to enhance the capabilities of the NATO Response Force, the top U.S. and NATO commander reported.
“After more than 10 years of experience fighting together in Afghanistan, we have achieved an unprecedented level of cohesiveness among allies and partners,” Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, said in his new blog posting.
“We are operating as a seamless integrated team right now, and we aim to maintain this level of cohesion...by intensifying our education, training and exercises across the air, land and sea domains,” he said.
Breedlove, who presided at Aug. 2 ceremonies during which Air Force Gen. Frank Gorenc assumed command of Allied Air Command, U.S. Air Forces Europe and U.S. Air Forces Africa, as well as directorship of the Joint Air Power Competence Center, called air power a key pillar of NATO’s deterrence.
Several upcoming exercises will take the integration demonstrated during Operation Unified Protector in Libya to the next level, with a goal of ensuring the units and Headquarters Air Command are prepared to assume the NATO Response Force mission in 2014, Breedlove reported.
The first of them, Exercise Brilliant Arrow, will kick off later this month in central Norway. Forty fighter aircraft, two airborne early warning platforms and about 800 participants will face a tough, realistic scenario that includes air defense units on the ground, he said.
Breedlove emphasized the importance of ensuring that air power remains ready and capable despite current economic uncertainties. This will be critical, he said, to prepare for the future security environment that will require NATO’s airpower to adapt to the speed and unpredictability of strategic and technological developments.
The general also underscored the continued importance of NATO’s airborne early warning and surveillance and air policing missions and their peacetime role in preserving the integrity of NATO European airspace and safeguarding NATO nations from air attacks.
“But airpower is just one part of the NATO team. We must also train hard on the land and the sea,” Breedlove said.
Exercise Brilliant Mariner, to begin in late September, will focus on training and certifying the readiness of maritime forces for their NATO Response Force rotation, he reported.
On land, Special Forces are preparing for the Exercise Brilliant Sword in Italy in October. The following month, several alliance nations, including the Baltic states and Poland, will participate in Exercise Steadfast Jazz. That exercise will bring together air, land, maritime and Special Forces components, as well as the headquarters staff from Joint Force Command Brunssum, which will lead NATO joint operations next year.
Breedlove emphasized the importance of exercises to NATO readiness.
“My aim is to make sure that our NRF deployable headquarters and troops are ready to deal with any situation in any environment,” he said. “The NRF and associated training is essential in maintaining and enhancing the ability of forces from across the alliance to work together.”
That, Breedlove emphasized, “will be increasingly important as our mission in Afghanistan winds down and we prepare to meet future challenges.”
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Tue Aug 6, 2013 5:47 am (PDT) . Posted by:
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http://voiceofrussi
Voice of Russia
August 5, 2013
NATO will make sure Russia is an enemy – Rick Rozoff
Recorded on July 31, 2013
Audio at URL above
Upcoming NATO military exercises envisage an attack on Poland and an Article 5 NATO intervention against a foreign power in power. To the dismay of Russia, these exercises continue the outdated Cold War thinking of the West, which refuses to let go of such stereotypes and continues to eschew peace and understanding between the nations. NATO and the West have an agenda, and that agenda is complete and total military domination of the world. Operation Steadfast Jazz 2013 underlines the real intentions of the alliance and further serves to destabilize the world in a region where countries should be working for peace. It is clear that the West is being controlled by the military-industrial complex and that peace is not something they envision. NATO, as an organization, should have been disbanded after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. But they have done quite the opposite and have continued with a global expansion that has made NATO the single-largest
military power in the history of the world.
This is John Robles. I’m speaking to Mr. Rick Rozoff, the owner and manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing list.
Robles: Rick, how are you this evening for you and morning for me. How are you doing?
Rozoff: I’m doing well, John. I hope you are also.
Robles: Thanks. Very busy lately. We have a lot of stuff going on. NATO is up and jumping almost everywhere we look, making threats to Russia, getting very active in the Baltics. What’s going on, Rick?
Rozoff: You’ve begun the discussion well, I think, that’s a string we can pull to bring in the entire fabric. What’s happening indeed, most recently a statement occurred in YLE News in Finland, a news story rather, quoting a Pentagon official, a fairly high-ranking one, one James Townsend, a civilian, he’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. I think the fact that the Pentagon views Europe and NATO as one entity essentially is revealing, as the title suggests.
Townsend, the Pentagon official, was basically telling Russia it’s none of their business if the U.S. drags Finland into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and that if Russia is going to say something about it, the U.S. can demonstrate that it, too, has a say in the matter or words to that effect. In other words, the U.S. can back down Russia or bluff or threaten it. I mean it really was a threat, and it had a very intimidating quality to his comments.
We have talked, I believe, on your program not too long ago, John, about the fact that the military in Sweden, Sweden’s top military commander, not too long ago, a couple or three months ago, came up with an absolutely absurd but dangerous scenario stating that Sweden, hitherto of course a neutral country, might have to join NATO because if Russia attacked it, the Swedish armed forces couldn’t withstand it for five minutes. And we are seeing similar scenarios play out throughout Scandinavia and in the Baltic region.
Basically, this is a concentrated and concerted effort by the United States and its allies to build up a Nordic-Baltic military force. And you had an article yourself in just the last two or three days, the NATO so-called phantom menace in relation to military activity in Norway.
Of course, Norway has a short border with Russia. Finland has a lengthy border with Russia. And what we are seeing just in the last few days the fact that the Army Corp of Engineers issued a contract to Kellogg, Brown and Root to began the construction of a military facility in Romania, where U.S. interceptor missiles are going to be stationed. That’s right across the Black Sea from Russia. That currently, or very shortly, the U.S. is leading air exercises, including paratroop exercises, in Bulgaria.
The U.S. is increasingly expanding and consolidating its military influence in Georgia, which borders Russia; the same as Azerbaijan. But what we are seeing most of right now...another dangerous statement, one you alluded to I believe in your article, is the fact that a deputy defense minister in Russia pointed out the fact that the upcoming military exercise that will be conducted by the United States and NATO, this year’s iteration of what’s called Steadfast Jazz, Steadfast Jazz 2013, which is going to occur in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, according to the Russian deputy defense minister statement under an Article 5 scenario: Article 5 is, of course, NATO’s Washington Treaty, the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 treaty, it is that part of the NATO founding document that states that all NATO members are obligated to militarily defend another one threatened.
So as you clearly indicated in your article, there is no conceivable adversary that fits into that scenario except for Russia. There would be some potential threat to Poland and to the Baltic states, clearly even with the overly imaginative capabilities of NATO and U.S. officials to attribute military capacities to nations like Iran and North Korea, which they certainly do not have and could not develop.
In the case of the Baltic Sea and Russia’s northwest border, that would be even beyond absurd, it would be an absolutely ludicrous contention, so that clearly Russia is the portrayed aggressor in this Article 5 scenario. And that goes quite in keeping with the statement by the military chief of Sweden we just talked about, the statement by the Pentagon official about Finland joining NATO.
We have to recall that Finland maintained its neutrality during the Cold War, the half century or more of the Cold War, as did Sweden, only to have both countries right now standing on the doorstep of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, where, when they join, they become essentially military outposts for the Pentagon.
Robles: Rick, we talked about that these kind of training exercises by NATO, The Defense Ministry said .they were bewildered by these exercises, again we are talking about Steadfast Jazz 2013, that you’ve mentioned I wrote about and you’ve commented about yourself, I believe it was Anatoly Antonov, deputy defense minister of the Russian Federation.
Nobody can understand, and they are baffled by this, why do they continue demonizing Russia, when Russia has done nothing and has no intention and no geopolitical reasoning to engage in any aggression against Poland or these countries. Why do you think, if we can voice it, why are they doing this?
Rozoff: There are two points. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which again I have to give you credit, you mentioned in your article, is the largest – in terms of membership, in terms of its military capability - military alliance or bloc in history, it’s one that is growing daily through partnerships and eventually will expand yet further with full members. But it is one which came into existence in 1949 under the guise of protecting Europe from the "Soviet menace," so that the Russian Federation being the successor state to the Soviet Union, I suppose it is incumbent on NATO to keep it around as a boogieman to justify military expansion of the United States into Eastern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and eventually if they have their way into the Caspian Sea.
So, the facts speak for themselves. It is painfully evident to me that the U.S. is using an implied if not overtly stated Russian threat as a justification for its military expansion throughout Eastern Europe.
Robles: If there’s no enemy then why do this?
Rozoff: They will make sure that Russia is an enemy. They will do it by baiting it, by intimidating it, by encircling it militarily.
There was an article, incidentally, today, by way of parallel, in Stars and Stripes, the armed forces publication in the United States, that quite openly said, you know with a degree of candor you’ll find in a military which you won’t find in a civilian one, that the U.S. is moving sophisticated warplanes to the nations where they have never divulged they are going to be deployed before, including Singapore, Philippines and Australia, in an effort to “surround China.” Those are the exact words in the article of yesterday’s Stars and Stripes.
And they mentioned that what is going now with the Asia-Pacific pivot in surrounding China militarily is comparable to what the U.S. did during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, but I would say, and the facts incontestably back this up, that the United States has done in the post-Cold War, post-Soviet period is surrounding the Russian Federation far more than they ever succeeded in doing during the Cold War.
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Voice of Russia
August 5, 2013
NATO will make sure Russia is an enemy – Rick Rozoff
Recorded on July 31, 2013
Audio at URL above
Upcoming NATO military exercises envisage an attack on Poland and an Article 5 NATO intervention against a foreign power in power. To the dismay of Russia, these exercises continue the outdated Cold War thinking of the West, which refuses to let go of such stereotypes and continues to eschew peace and understanding between the nations. NATO and the West have an agenda, and that agenda is complete and total military domination of the world. Operation Steadfast Jazz 2013 underlines the real intentions of the alliance and further serves to destabilize the world in a region where countries should be working for peace. It is clear that the West is being controlled by the military-industrial complex and that peace is not something they envision. NATO, as an organization, should have been disbanded after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. But they have done quite the opposite and have continued with a global expansion that has made NATO the single-largest
military power in the history of the world.
This is John Robles. I’m speaking to Mr. Rick Rozoff, the owner and manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing list.
Robles: Rick, how are you this evening for you and morning for me. How are you doing?
Rozoff: I’m doing well, John. I hope you are also.
Robles: Thanks. Very busy lately. We have a lot of stuff going on. NATO is up and jumping almost everywhere we look, making threats to Russia, getting very active in the Baltics. What’s going on, Rick?
Rozoff: You’ve begun the discussion well, I think, that’s a string we can pull to bring in the entire fabric. What’s happening indeed, most recently a statement occurred in YLE News in Finland, a news story rather, quoting a Pentagon official, a fairly high-ranking one, one James Townsend, a civilian, he’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. I think the fact that the Pentagon views Europe and NATO as one entity essentially is revealing, as the title suggests.
Townsend, the Pentagon official, was basically telling Russia it’s none of their business if the U.S. drags Finland into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and that if Russia is going to say something about it, the U.S. can demonstrate that it, too, has a say in the matter or words to that effect. In other words, the U.S. can back down Russia or bluff or threaten it. I mean it really was a threat, and it had a very intimidating quality to his comments.
We have talked, I believe, on your program not too long ago, John, about the fact that the military in Sweden, Sweden’s top military commander, not too long ago, a couple or three months ago, came up with an absolutely absurd but dangerous scenario stating that Sweden, hitherto of course a neutral country, might have to join NATO because if Russia attacked it, the Swedish armed forces couldn’t withstand it for five minutes. And we are seeing similar scenarios play out throughout Scandinavia and in the Baltic region.
Basically, this is a concentrated and concerted effort by the United States and its allies to build up a Nordic-Baltic military force. And you had an article yourself in just the last two or three days, the NATO so-called phantom menace in relation to military activity in Norway.
Of course, Norway has a short border with Russia. Finland has a lengthy border with Russia. And what we are seeing just in the last few days the fact that the Army Corp of Engineers issued a contract to Kellogg, Brown and Root to began the construction of a military facility in Romania, where U.S. interceptor missiles are going to be stationed. That’s right across the Black Sea from Russia. That currently, or very shortly, the U.S. is leading air exercises, including paratroop exercises, in Bulgaria.
The U.S. is increasingly expanding and consolidating its military influence in Georgia, which borders Russia; the same as Azerbaijan. But what we are seeing most of right now...another dangerous statement, one you alluded to I believe in your article, is the fact that a deputy defense minister in Russia pointed out the fact that the upcoming military exercise that will be conducted by the United States and NATO, this year’s iteration of what’s called Steadfast Jazz, Steadfast Jazz 2013, which is going to occur in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, according to the Russian deputy defense minister statement under an Article 5 scenario: Article 5 is, of course, NATO’s Washington Treaty, the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 treaty, it is that part of the NATO founding document that states that all NATO members are obligated to militarily defend another one threatened.
So as you clearly indicated in your article, there is no conceivable adversary that fits into that scenario except for Russia. There would be some potential threat to Poland and to the Baltic states, clearly even with the overly imaginative capabilities of NATO and U.S. officials to attribute military capacities to nations like Iran and North Korea, which they certainly do not have and could not develop.
In the case of the Baltic Sea and Russia’s northwest border, that would be even beyond absurd, it would be an absolutely ludicrous contention, so that clearly Russia is the portrayed aggressor in this Article 5 scenario. And that goes quite in keeping with the statement by the military chief of Sweden we just talked about, the statement by the Pentagon official about Finland joining NATO.
We have to recall that Finland maintained its neutrality during the Cold War, the half century or more of the Cold War, as did Sweden, only to have both countries right now standing on the doorstep of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, where, when they join, they become essentially military outposts for the Pentagon.
Robles: Rick, we talked about that these kind of training exercises by NATO, The Defense Ministry said .they were bewildered by these exercises, again we are talking about Steadfast Jazz 2013, that you’ve mentioned I wrote about and you’ve commented about yourself, I believe it was Anatoly Antonov, deputy defense minister of the Russian Federation.
Nobody can understand, and they are baffled by this, why do they continue demonizing Russia, when Russia has done nothing and has no intention and no geopolitical reasoning to engage in any aggression against Poland or these countries. Why do you think, if we can voice it, why are they doing this?
Rozoff: There are two points. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which again I have to give you credit, you mentioned in your article, is the largest – in terms of membership, in terms of its military capability - military alliance or bloc in history, it’s one that is growing daily through partnerships and eventually will expand yet further with full members. But it is one which came into existence in 1949 under the guise of protecting Europe from the "Soviet menace," so that the Russian Federation being the successor state to the Soviet Union, I suppose it is incumbent on NATO to keep it around as a boogieman to justify military expansion of the United States into Eastern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and eventually if they have their way into the Caspian Sea.
So, the facts speak for themselves. It is painfully evident to me that the U.S. is using an implied if not overtly stated Russian threat as a justification for its military expansion throughout Eastern Europe.
Robles: If there’s no enemy then why do this?
Rozoff: They will make sure that Russia is an enemy. They will do it by baiting it, by intimidating it, by encircling it militarily.
There was an article, incidentally, today, by way of parallel, in Stars and Stripes, the armed forces publication in the United States, that quite openly said, you know with a degree of candor you’ll find in a military which you won’t find in a civilian one, that the U.S. is moving sophisticated warplanes to the nations where they have never divulged they are going to be deployed before, including Singapore, Philippines and Australia, in an effort to “surround China.” Those are the exact words in the article of yesterday’s Stars and Stripes.
And they mentioned that what is going now with the Asia-Pacific pivot in surrounding China militarily is comparable to what the U.S. did during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, but I would say, and the facts incontestably back this up, that the United States has done in the post-Cold War, post-Soviet period is surrounding the Russian Federation far more than they ever succeeded in doing during the Cold War.
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Tue Aug 6, 2013 5:57 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://www.mod.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
August 5, 2013
Instructors’ Retraining Program Finished
The retraining program for Georgian instructors came to an end at the National Training Center “Krtsanisi”. The instructors were granted the relevant certificates.
Within the retraining program, Georgian instructors underwent four courses. The program included Junior Officers’ Preparation, Small Unit’s Leader, Combat Hunter and Formal Instructors’ courses.
A training program for Georgian instructors with the assistance of American marines, within the ISAF program, was held in Georgia for the first time.
Following the program, Georgian instructors train military servicemen at National Training Center “Krtsanisi”.
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Ministry of Defence of Georgia
August 5, 2013
Instructors’ Retraining Program Finished
The retraining program for Georgian instructors came to an end at the National Training Center “Krtsanisi”. The instructors were granted the relevant certificates.
Within the retraining program, Georgian instructors underwent four courses. The program included Junior Officers’ Preparation, Small Unit’s Leader, Combat Hunter and Formal Instructors’ courses.
A training program for Georgian instructors with the assistance of American marines, within the ISAF program, was held in Georgia for the first time.
Following the program, Georgian instructors train military servicemen at National Training Center “Krtsanisi”.
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Tue Aug 6, 2013 6:24 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://www.africom.
U.S. Africa Command
August 2, 2013
AFRICOM, International Partners Cooperate on Improving Security and Stability in Libya
Technical Sergeant Olufemi A. Owolabi
U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs
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As part of an effort to work together with the Libyan military, the UK plans to train members of the Libyan Armed Forces in basic infantry skills and leadership in Cambridgeshire, UK.
“This training is part of a broader package of defense and security assistance developed with the US, France and Italy.”
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STUTTGART, Germany: Staff members from U.S. Africa Command and military delegates from four countries, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations gathered at the command’s headquarters July 29, 2013, to discuss how they might improve their long-standing cooperation to enhance security and stability in Libya.
Welcoming the delegates of top military officials from the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, NATO and the United Nations, the AFRICOM’s deputy to the commander for military operations (DCMO), Marine Corps Lieutenant General Steven Hummer said security and stability challenges in Africa require a collaborative effort, and he thanked the delegates for their shared interest in ensuring a stable and secure Africa.
The visitors were hosted by the AFRICOM’s Strategy, Plans and Programs Directorate (J5), led by Major General Charles Hooper.
Their aim was to meet in order to try and coordinate international efforts to reduce duplication and improve results by providing a complementary and structured package of support.
“A coordinated effort in Libya is the best way of providing effective support to the region,” said Air Commander Gavin Parker, from the UK’s ministry of defense...
According to Hooper, one of the purposes of the meeting was to discuss how to collaborate and synergize the efforts of the U.S. and international partners to help the Libyan people build a new Libya. [sic]
“Everyone agrees that the future of Libya and the future of the efforts of our international partners to help the Libyan people and the Libyan government to build a new country in the aftermath of their revolution is important,” said Hooper. “This (meeting) is an effort to bring together all the international partners that have made commitments to assist the Libyan people and the Libyan government to allow them to discuss with each other their individual efforts and to agree upon a collective approach that will allow us to leverage each other’s strengths.”
Stability in Libya will assist stability in the entire region, Hooper added, noting that Libya, in terms of location in the Sahel Maghreb and in North Africa is an extremely important country.
...
As part of an effort to work together with the Libyan military, the UK plans to train members of the Libyan Armed Forces in basic infantry skills and leadership in Cambridgeshire, UK.
“This training is part of a broader package of defense and security assistance developed with the US, France and Italy,” Parker said. “This is aimed at supporting the Libyan Government’s efforts to increase the effectiveness and capacity of its security and justice sector institutions, and to ensure the state’s monopoly on security.”
U.S. Africa Command
August 2, 2013
AFRICOM, International Partners Cooperate on Improving Security and Stability in Libya
Technical Sergeant Olufemi A. Owolabi
U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs
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As part of an effort to work together with the Libyan military, the UK plans to train members of the Libyan Armed Forces in basic infantry skills and leadership in Cambridgeshire, UK.
“This training is part of a broader package of defense and security assistance developed with the US, France and Italy.”
====
STUTTGART, Germany: Staff members from U.S. Africa Command and military delegates from four countries, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations gathered at the command’s headquarters July 29, 2013, to discuss how they might improve their long-standing cooperation to enhance security and stability in Libya.
Welcoming the delegates of top military officials from the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, NATO and the United Nations, the AFRICOM’s deputy to the commander for military operations (DCMO), Marine Corps Lieutenant General Steven Hummer said security and stability challenges in Africa require a collaborative effort, and he thanked the delegates for their shared interest in ensuring a stable and secure Africa.
The visitors were hosted by the AFRICOM’s Strategy, Plans and Programs Directorate (J5), led by Major General Charles Hooper.
Their aim was to meet in order to try and coordinate international efforts to reduce duplication and improve results by providing a complementary and structured package of support.
“A coordinated effort in Libya is the best way of providing effective support to the region,” said Air Commander Gavin Parker, from the UK’s ministry of defense...
According to Hooper, one of the purposes of the meeting was to discuss how to collaborate and synergize the efforts of the U.S. and international partners to help the Libyan people build a new Libya. [sic]
“Everyone agrees that the future of Libya and the future of the efforts of our international partners to help the Libyan people and the Libyan government to build a new country in the aftermath of their revolution is important,” said Hooper. “This (meeting) is an effort to bring together all the international partners that have made commitments to assist the Libyan people and the Libyan government to allow them to discuss with each other their individual efforts and to agree upon a collective approach that will allow us to leverage each other’s strengths.”
Stability in Libya will assist stability in the entire region, Hooper added, noting that Libya, in terms of location in the Sahel Maghreb and in North Africa is an extremely important country.
...
As part of an effort to work together with the Libyan military, the UK plans to train members of the Libyan Armed Forces in basic infantry skills and leadership in Cambridgeshire, UK.
“This training is part of a broader package of defense and security assistance developed with the US, France and Italy,” Parker said. “This is aimed at supporting the Libyan Government’s efforts to increase the effectiveness and capacity of its security and justice sector institutions, and to ensure the state’s monopoly on security.”