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Expeditionary Operations
June 2008
Colonel Wouter Sleurink
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Program - Strategic Guidance and
Transformational Work in the arena of
Expeditionary Operations- NATOs Allied Joint
Doctrine for the Deployment of Forces-
OLCM/NJSB/JEA/Training and Education
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PART 1 Overarching Conceptual Vision and
Framework - guide transformational work-
provide informational reference- serve as a
means of communicationthroughout NATO and its
member nations.
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Strategic Environment

complex security environment influenced by
numerous challenges
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Future forces will need to be Agile, Joint and
Expeditionary in character and design These
forces will need to be rapidly deployable and
sustainable in austere environments regardless
of the duration and tempo of operations
Strategic Environment
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In this Millennium, a Combat Unit without
Strategic Lift
Is like a Soldier without a Rifle!
EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS
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• Track 1 We need to have the capabilities
• No assets, no expeditionary capability!
• How much do we need, of what?
• Ongoing Initiatives Great start!
• New developments? No commercial market!
• Recapitalizing on existing equipment
• Reflecting new policy in Defence Planning
• RSOM FPs - fair share
• MN LLN LRSN

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Operational Context
Potential expeditionary operations will range the
whole mission-type spectrum across the globe
Expeditionary forces will increasingly be
operationally employed as part of an overall
effects-based approach to operations
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• Track 2 How do we use the capabilities
• C2
• Deployment redeployment are an integral part
  of the mission
• Collective responsibility Chain management from
  end-to-end
• Strategic Manoeuvre
• Maximum amount of options/choices for the
  commander
• Adaptive systems
• Not just the steady state, the challenges and
  opportunities are mostly in the lay-out
• Education, Training, and Exercise
• No more Magic Move Logistics ex Machina
• Right mix

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The Nature of Expeditionary Operations
expeditionary operations is the projection of
forces into a foreign setting
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The Nature of Expeditionary Operations
Key to the entry phase is the presence, or
creation, of some entry points
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The Nature of Expeditionary Operations
Projection of Forces need be viewed in a
larger sense as more than deployment and entry
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The Nature of Expeditionary Operations
CANTEEN
Is a refrigerator or a flat-screen TV part of
the Minimum Military Requirements for
Expeditionary Operations?
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The Nature of Expeditionary Operations
Expeditionary operations are not a particular
organization, family of equipment or tactic It
is a state of mind
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Deployment Models
Achievement of effects will be facilitated by an
ability to conduct strategic maneuver warfare
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Evolution of Integrated Logistics
Achieving Operational Effectiveness through
Maximizing Freedom of Action for the NATO
Commander
Joint
NATION A
NATION B
Best Value for Nations!
Multi-national/ Multi-agency
NATION C
AGENCY A
Capabilities
DECONFLICTION
COORDINATION
INTEGRATION
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Initial Capability Needs
Forces need to be structured, equipped, manned
and trained for EO
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Conclusion Part 1
The NATO Force Commander needs to have as many as
possible options for deploying and sustaining his
forces tailor-made to fulfill the ambition of the
Alliance toward the realization of effective
expeditionary power projection capabilities
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OLCM conceptual approach

NATO Force Commander Operational Level
Visibility Logistic Segment of the COP Decision
Support
Operational Planning Process OPP
Authority prioritize, manage, coordinate
influence
Common Operational Picture COP
Flexibility Mission tailored, adaptive, Open
Architecture approach
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OLCM Scope
End-to-End Logistics
OLCM Glass Pipeline (s)
National Capability Management
Tactical level NSE, Organic Support
Collective Responsibility
Flexible Gateways
Flexible Gateways
Management
Continuous Logistics Information Exchange
Logistics Process
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AJP 3.13Allied Joint Doctrine for the
Deployment of Forces
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AJP 3.13 OVERVIEW
RSOM

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Implementing the doctrine means

• SD, RSOM I is a Collective responsibility.
• Multinational approach is Conditio sine qua
  non.
• One system provided by some and used by all.
• Transfer of Authority belongs to history

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NATO Joint Sea Basing (NJSB)

• Background
• NJSB envisions the deployment, employment and
  sustainment of a
• tailored joint force package utilizing a
  combination of amphibious platforms, strategic
• sealift and tactical air and sealift to rapidly
  project and sustain joint forces wherever
• needed.
• Simply stated, specified land and air component
  forces are deployed utilizing
• existing amphibious platforms resident within
  NATO member nations inventory in
• conjunction with available strategic sealift
  assets from the commercial market.
• Correspondingly, NJSB provides the NATO commander
  with a capability to
• exercise command and control (C2), and/or the
  projection of military and logistics
• capabilities from seaborne platforms.
• Definition
• The joint use of seaborne platforms to project,
  support and sustain multi-national
• forces.

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NATO Joint Sea Basing (NJSB)
Example NJSB Application Models
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Joint Enabling Area (JEA)
Background - JEA is a result of the linear to
asymmetrical shift in operations, it
is expeditionary, mission dependent and is not
constrained by geographical boundaries. Definitio
n - The JEA contains identified enabling
functions in specified locations that facilitates
operations, protection of installations,
activities and forces. Examples - NATO / Host
Nation forces, APOE/D,SPOE/D, logistical bases,
Medical installations, transport assets, POW
compounds and HQ facilities including IO/NGO.
To- Asymmetric Expeditionary Operations
TNG Area
OBJ
Sea base
APOE
OBJ
SPOD
OBJ
OBJ
NGO IO
APOD
OBJ
AA
JTF HQ
SPOE
LOG BASE
Joint Rear Area (JRA)
Joint Enabling Area (JEA)
Joint Operational Area
Home Station
Coalition Partner
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Training and Education
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CONCLUSIONS PART 2

• Deployment of Forces is an environmental enabler
  with far reaching impact on sustainment and
  redeployment
• Manoeuvre (Warfare) at the Strategic Level.
  Commanders Business!
• No training, no results

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Expeditionary Operations QUESTIONS?
June 2008
Colonel Wouter Sleurink
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