Small Countries' Special Operations Forces Contribution to the NATO Response Force

Abstract

The creation of the NATO Response Forces (NRF) has played a significant role in the NATO transformation to meet the challenges of the 21st century and a new opportunity for interoperability between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and partners. As the withdrawal of NATO from Afghanistan starts to unfold, NRF seems to be the tool for the future. The vast majority of the NATO and partner small countries had focused on developing Special Operations Forces (SOF) capabilities to contribute to NATO, as a cost efficient capability to develop that can achieve bigger effects ateration with other countries, these capabilities can be enhanced. Since NRF is expected to take the lead in future NATO operations, this research focuses on the ways the small countries' SOF can contribute to the NRF.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 13, 2014
Accession Number
ADA611665

Entities

People

  • Mentor Saiti

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Readiness
  • Combat Support
  • Command And Control
  • Geographic Regions
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Special Forces
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Surveillance
  • Teamwork
  • United States
  • United States European Command
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Systems Analysis and Design