ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Simon Purton

Section Head Decision Support

HQ Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

Refinding Doctrine

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Why are we interested?

“After a focus on counter-insurgency for

the last decade, NATO needs to re-find

doctrine as the foundation for

interoperability”

Chairman of the NATO Military Committee,

General Knud Bartels, 29 October 2012

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Agenda

• Context

– Capability Development

– Concept Development & Experimentation

• Doctrine Development

– Emerging requirement

• Analysis Implications

– What has been done?

– What has been learnt?

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Force Development Cycle

Operations

ReadinessKnowledge

Capabilities

Exercises

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

CD&E

• NATO Process

• Military Committee Tasked

• A NATO Concept is…

– “Disruptive Idea”

• Campaign Plan

– Research

– Analysis

– Experimentation

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

NATO Doctrine Development

• NATO Process

• Military Committee Tasked

• NATO Doctrine is…

– Distilled Best Practice

• Campaign Plan

– Identify Void

– Develop Proposal

– Draft Doctrine

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Force Development Cycle

Operations

ReadinessKnowledge

Capabilities

Exercises

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Content Analysis

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Content Analysis

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Analysis of Lessons

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

What’s next?

• Doctrine Development Task

– Ballistic Missile Defence

– Battlespace Management

– Cyber Operations

– Assessment (USA)

• Enhanced Toolset

– Static & Dynamic Testing

– Automated Content Analysis

– Document Network Mapping

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ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Capstone & Keystone Allied Joint Publications

AJP-01

Allied Joint

Doctrine

AJP-2

Int

AJP-2.2

Counter

Int

AJP-2.1

Int

Procedures

AJP-4

Logs

AJP-4.9

Multinat

Log Supp

AJP-4.5

Host Nation

Supp

AJP-4.6

MJLC

AJP-4.4

Mvmt &

Trans

AJP-3.6

EW

Ops

AJP-3.4.1

Peace Supp

Ops

AJP-3.4(.0)

Non Art

5 CRO

AJP-3.3

Air

Ops

AJP-3.12

Joint

Eng

AJP-3.10.1

PsyOps

AJP-3

Ops

AJP-3.3.2

CAS & AI

AJP-3.10

Info

Ops

AJP-3.3.3

Air-Mar

Co-ord

AJP-3.8

CBRN

Defence

AJP-3.11

METOC

Supp

AJP-3.1

Maritime

Ops

AJP-3.4.2

Non-Comb

Evac Ops

AJP-3.9

Joint

Targeting

AJP-3.14

Force

Protection

AJP-3.13

Deployment

of Forces

AJP-3.5

Special

Ops

AJP-6

CCIS

AJP-3.2

Land

Ops

AJP-3.3.5

AirSpace

Control

AJP-4.7

Petroleum

AJP-5

Op-Level

Planning

AJP-2.3

Human

Int

AJP-3.15

C-IED

Ops

AJP-2.5

Captured

Persons

AJP-2.7

Recon &

Surv

AJP-3.2.3.3

Military

Police

AJP-4.10

Medical

Supp

AJP-3.3.9

PR

AJP-3.4.3

Supp to Civil

Authorities

AJP-3.4.4

COIN

AJP-3.3.1

Counter Air

AJP-4.11

Asset

Visibility

AJP-3.4.5

MS to

S&R

AJP-3.4.9

CIMIC

Allied Joint Publications

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Document Network Mapping

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Final Thoughts

Concepts

• Something novel

• Getting something into the

military mind

• “Greenfield”

Doctrine

• Distilled best practice

• Getting something out of

the military mind

• “Brownfield”

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

Final Thoughts

“The only thing harder than getting

a new idea into a military mind,

is getting an old one out”

B H Liddell-Hart

ACT – Leading NATO Military Transformation

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