Nato Maritime Command

MARCOM family has celebrated yesterday in a ceremony, the recognition of individual performance by distinguish staff members. During a Medal Parade presided by MARCOM Commander, Vice Admiral Clive Johnstone CB CBE, staff members were presented with NATO and National awards in recognition of their achievements.

This week MARCOM received the visit of the NCI Agency General Manager, Mr Kevin Scheid. The General Manager wished to see first-hand the progress made with the installation of new IT equipment as part of the NATO IT Modernisation (ITM) Project and to discuss the benefits and timelines of this project with the MARCOM Commander, Vice-Admiral Clive Johnstone CB CBE.

Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 with ships from 🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇷 and Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2 with ships from 🇩🇪🇷🇴🇹🇷 are participating in 🇧🇬Bulgarian exercise #BREEZE18 in the Black Sea --> Read more below

On 16 July 2018, NATO Naval Groups SNMG2 and SNMCMG2 after pulling in Burgas (Bulgaria) ahead of their participation in Bulgarian-led annual naval exercise Breeze 2018, paid visits to the Province Governor and City Mayor of Burgas.
Following the office calls with the local civilian authorities, the Commanders of the NATO Groups and the Commanders of other participating units made their participation in the Pre Sail Conference hosted by the commander of a Bulgarian Navy Flotilla Flotilla Admiral Malen Chubenkov.

In the Framework of Bulgarian-led annual naval exercise Breeze 2018, training team from the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre, NMIOTC (Crete, Greece) trained Bulgarian, Romanian and French Navy boarding teams aiming to enhance their skills for planning and conducting boarding operations.
In conjunction with this training, subject matter experts from the Maritime Security Centre of Excellence, MARSEC COE (Istanbul, Turkey) provided indeep training to Bulgarian SOF for actions to protect critical infrastructure sites.

Romanian frigate ROS Regele Ferdinand and minesweeper Lt. Lupu Dinescu are participating in Bulgarian exercise #BREEZE18 as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group Two - SNMCMG2 in the Black Sea. Check out the great photos below.
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Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group Two - SNMCMG2 just welcomed two new members from üáπüá© Romania and üáπüá∑ Turkey

Fair Winds and Following Seas to the crew of 🇬🇧HMS Enterprise. HMS Enterprise did an exceptional job as flagship for SNMCMG2 over the last year and has now handed over to 🇩🇪FGS Rhein. Check out some of the group's activities over the last 6 months below.

Check out some of the great photos from NATO's premier Anti-Submarine Warfare exercise in the North Atlantic - Exercise #DynamicMongoose 2018.
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Northwood (UK) - MARCOM had a special visit this week. Oliver stayed with us for a week of work experience. This is his opinion of his time in a multi-national environment like NATO Maritime Command is.
This past week has been an incredibly interesting one for me. I am a 16y/o student from the UK, who has spent the last week doing a period of work experience with the staff of NATO MARCOM. My specific interest is in Geopolitics and international relations, and as such this was... an incredible opportunity for me to get to learn more about this sector. Although it took me a while to get used to the constant use of acronyms and NATO-isms to refer to the various divisions, I found that all the staff here were friendly, helpful and very willing to lend some of their time for me to ask a fairly continuous stream of questions and queries, for which I am extremely grateful.
What surprised me the most about the week was simply the length and breadth of the work that NATO does, oaring everything from running numerous simultaneous operations in various parts of the world to dealing with public affairs and protecting shipping lanes to ensure the flow of free trade across the world.
The part of the week that will always stand out for me was the trip I had to the Maritime Control Centre (MOC). It was one of those classic movie control centres, with rows of computers facing a large wall that was covered completely by a huge screen, and reminded me heavily of the control centres we see in movies except, well, real. Sadly all the interesting stuff had to be cleared from me to be allowed in, but I can imagine the sorts of operations and action that takes place in there behind locked doors.
I cannot stress just how incredible of an experience this week was for me, learning a lot about the basic components that enable such a large organisations to run so effectively, and having many interesting discussions with various staff members over the course of the week.
We finished with the 4th of July BBQ run by the American Contingent deployed on site; it was such good fun, and very nice to spend the afternoon in a more informal atmosphere with the staff and their families that I had got to know over the course of the week.
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NRK coverage of NATO Anti-Submarine Warfare exercise #DynamicMongoose (in Norwegian)

MARCOM and MARAIR in particular gives a very warm welcome to the Portuguese Air Force Maritime Patrol Aircraft type P-3C CUP+ and its crew for their deployment under NATO MARAIR Operational Control (OPCON).
"The Wolves" will be based in Lithuania and for the next weeks will be contributing to the NATO's Assurance Measures, placing their high skills to support and maintain an accurate Maritime Situational Awareness in the Baltic region.

A team from Northwood HQ including Commander Geordie Klein (NLD N) from NATO MARCOM successfully crossed England last Saturday.
This team of five runners covered the 69 miles (112 kilometres) from West (Carlisle) to East (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) along Hadrian’s Wall in13 hours and 4 minutes.
Commander Klein achievement was also to raise awareness and support to Run4Cancer, a UK charity.

Mark, you gave us what a fantastic example. I'm pround to belong MARCOM.

MARCOM wishes a successful exercise to the ALES Wargame held at the NATO Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, NORWAY.
ALES - Amphibious Leaders Expeditionary Symposium is a Marine Forces Europe and Africa-led amphibious forum which includes amphibious leaders and experts from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Warrant Officer Mark Harvey, a member of HQ MARCOM (MARAIR) with two other team mates is to take a 24h walking journey from HMNB Portsmouth to MARCOM on the 19-20 July 2018, to raise the profile of Cancer Reserch UK. Let's join Mark and support him by donating our contributions via Northwood Against Cancer. https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/‚Ä ¶/mark-williams-givi‚Ķ

MARCOM received the visit of the Italian Navy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Mauro Barbierato. During the visit Admiral Barbierato was received by Rear Admiral Nihat Baran TUR N, Deputy Chief of Staff Support and both had the opportunity to discuss on NATO Maritime Medical current initiatives. On the occasion, the Italian contingent to MARCOM meet with Admiral Barbierato to discuss subjects of national interest.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.



Signing of the NATO Treaty

NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. The former required a massive influx of aid to help the war-torn landscapes re-establish industries and produce food, and the latter required assurances against a resurgent Germany or incursions from the Soviet Union. The United States viewed an economically strong, rearmed, and integrated Europe as vital to the prevention of communist expansion across the continent. As a result, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a program of large-scale economic aid to Europe. The resulting European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan, not only facilitated European economic integration but promoted the idea of shared interests and cooperation between the United States and Europe. Soviet refusal either to participate in the Marshall Plan or to allow its satellite states in Eastern Europe to accept the economic assistance helped to reinforce the growing division between east and west in Europe.



In 1947–1948, a series of events caused the nations of Western Europe to become concerned about their physical and political security and the United States to become more closely involved with European affairs. The ongoing civil war in Greece, along with tensions in Turkey, led President Harry S. Truman to assert that the United States would provide economic and military aid to both countries, as well as to any other nation struggling against an attempt at subjugation. A Soviet-sponsored coup in Czechoslovakia resulted in a communist government coming to power on the borders of Germany. Attention also focused on elections in Italy as the communist party had made significant gains among Italian voters. Furthermore, events in Germany also caused concern. The occupation and governance of Germany after the war had long been disputed, and in mid-1948, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin chose to test Western resolve by implementing a blockade against West Berlin, which was then under joint U.S., British, and French control but surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany. This Berlin Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of conflict, although a massive airlift to resupply the city for the duration of the blockade helped to prevent an outright confrontation. These events caused U.S. officials to grow increasingly wary of the possibility that the countries of Western Europe might deal with their security concerns by negotiating with the Soviets. To counter this possible turn of events, the Truman Administration considered the possibility of forming a European-American alliance that would commit the United States to bolstering the security of Western Europe.



Signing of the Brussels Treaty

The Western European countries were willing to consider a collective security solution. In response to increasing tensions and security concerns, representatives of several countries of Western Europe gathered together to create a military alliance. Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed the Brussels Treaty in March, 1948. Their treaty provided collective defense; if any one of these nations was attacked, the others were bound to help defend it. At the same time, the Truman Administration instituted a peacetime draft, increased military spending, and called upon the historically isolationist Republican Congress to consider a military alliance with Europe. In May of 1948, Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg proposed a resolution suggesting that the President seek a security treaty with Western Europe that would adhere to the United Nations charter but exist outside of the Security Council where the Soviet Union held veto power. The Vandenburg Resolution passed, and negotiations began for the North Atlantic Treaty.



In spite of general agreement on the concept behind the treaty, it took several months to work out the exact terms. The U.S. Congress had embraced the pursuit of the international alliance, but it remained concerned about the wording of the treaty. The nations of Western Europe wanted assurances that the United States would intervene automatically in the event of an attack, but under the U.S. Constitution the power to declare war rested with Congress. Negotiations worked toward finding language that would reassure the European states but not obligate the United States to act in a way that violated its own laws. Additionally, European contributions to collective security would require large-scale military assistance from the United States to help rebuild Western Europe’s defense capabilities. While the European nations argued for individual grants and aid, the United States wanted to make aid conditional on regional coordination. A third issue was the question of scope. The Brussels Treaty signatories preferred that membership in the alliance be restricted to the members of that treaty plus the United States. The U.S. negotiators felt there was more to be gained from enlarging the new treaty to include the countries of the North Atlantic, including Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, and Portugal. Together, these countries held territory that formed a bridge between the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean, which would facilitate military action if it became necessary.



President Truman inspecting a tank produced under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program

The result of these extensive negotiations was the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. In this agreement, the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom agreed to consider attack against one an attack against all, along with consultations about threats and defense matters. This collective defense arrangement only formally applied to attacks against the signatories that occurred in Europe or North America; it did not include conflicts in colonial territories. After the treaty was signed, a number of the signatories made requests to the United States for military aid. Later in 1949, President Truman proposed a military assistance program, and the Mutual Defense Assistance Program passed the U.S. Congress in October, appropriating some $1.4 billion dollars for the purpose of building Western European defenses.



Soon after the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the outbreak of the Korean War led the members to move quickly to integrate and coordinate their defense forces through a centralized headquarters. The North Korean attack on South Korea was widely viewed at the time to be an example of communist aggression directed by Moscow, so the United States bolstered its troop commitments to Europe to provide assurances against Soviet aggression on the European continent. In 1952, the members agreed to admit Greece and Turkey to NATO and added the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955. West German entry led the Soviet Union to retaliate with its own regional alliance, which took the form of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and included the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe as members.



The collective defense arrangements in NATO served to place the whole of Western Europe under the American “nuclear umbrella.” In the 1950s, one of the first military doctrines of NATO emerged in the form of “massive retaliation,” or the idea that if any member was attacked, the United States would respond with a large-scale nuclear attack. The threat of this form of response was meant to serve as a deterrent against Soviet aggression on the continent. Although formed in response to the exigencies of the developing Cold War, NATO has lasted beyond the end of that conflict, with membership even expanding to include some former Soviet states. It remains the largest peacetime military alliance in the world.

Submarines frequently provide support to NATO operations in the maritime domain, predominantly for the Mediterranean based OAE. This support most often involves providing information to NATO MARCOM that helps to build maritime situational awareness, while remaining under operational and tactical command and control of the individual submarine operating nations.

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One of the most important tasks for the implementation of strategic political planning. The international stands against the Russian military influence in the Mediterranean region is the activation of the dialogue between the countriÿåes of the Union for the Mediterranean, known as the European Mediterranean countries because Russia has become a threat to the interests of the Mediterranean countries, the member state is not a neighboring country occupies geographically Syria's coast to Syria and the war of genocide Collective against human rights, they penetrate all international rules and laws. Russia is also looking to expand into the Mediterranean, threatening the interests of the Euro-Mediterranean countries

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More important now than ever, especially in the Baltic Sea and in Middle East area

It hit dead on and well some may not like but it does what it needs I seen red stars last time still like o well harden up.

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It is one of the better Command Centres in my area. I can fairly wholeheartedly recommend it to people who quite like them, but be warned that they DO NOT accept National Trust cards. They have their own membership scheme which is quite h√Ýrd to join, but it does get you good discounts in their themed 'NAAFI' style restaurant.

Not having to leave through a gift centre was a nice touch.

🚀Yes,Jens....any totalitarian regime sucks.....just like all those Arab regimes who are our buddies, while Assad has to go for economic reasons..Not to mention the Chinese communist party who until recently with impunity holds the North Korean people hostage to use as the joker in her foreign policy deck of cards.... It's all conveniently Russia this, Russia that.....Unlike our leaders,,Putin sure isn't anyone's choirboy , but might it not be that some of his questionable actions might be inspired by Nato's unrelenting pressure ? ____Still remember Nato's favourite patsy Gorbachov begging Nato not to give in to triumphalism over the collapse of the Sovjet Union....some hope....Russia was after all always the dependable Bogey Bear to justify billions in "defence" spending ? Why is it that just when former Sovjet republics began to gain some long overdue autonomy, lo and behold,up popped the "North Atlantic Treaty Organisation" courting those same republics to join her in carving up Russia into bite size portions ? Supporting neo fascist seperatist mercenaries in the Ukraïne......and all the while you're pretending to be surprised why Putin isn't raising the white flag......The Ukraïne which is just as inseparable a part of Russia as Alaska is considered to be of the U.S.A......Nato in the process of moving her nuclear warheads from Turkey to Romania....which would be the same as when the former Warsaw Pact was stationing nuclear missiles in Mexico......I wonder how the West would have reacted if the former Warsaw Pact had extended her influence towards Norway........the two World Wars were started for lesser reasons.....Putin's restraint is somewhat admirable....... __________Nato has got it easy, since most of our media has been so brainwashed into failing to ask these questions.......while Jens Stoltenberg seems like a marionet in service of the U.S."Military Industrial Complex" ,busy in making the European theatre safe for a long overdue bout of bloodletting ? Which never in Western Europe since 1945 has the chance for that accidentally happening been so great.........🚀🚀🌍🚀🚀 "Nato is obsolete"...maybe Trump isn't such an idiot after all. He might ofcourse be assasinated by some "rogue" loony ofcourse....."why can't we get along with Russia for a change ?" "After all, the Warsaw Pact folded for two decades already ?"......no no no....we can't have THAT.............