Colonel Craig Croxton

Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor

United States European Command

7 May 2009

The overall classification of this

briefing is UNCLASSIFIED

Regional Approach to

Stockpile Reduction (RASR)

of Conventional Weapons

and Munitions Brief

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• Maintaining ready forces for global operations (unilateral or in concert with coalition partners)

• Securing strategic access and enabling global freedom of action

• Enhancing transatlantic security through support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO)

• Promoting regional stability

• Countering terrorism

EUCOM AOR and Mission

Defend the Homeland Forward and Support U.S. and Partner Strategic Interests by:

51 Independent States

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• Waning International

Political Support for NATO

and EUFOR

• Weak Economies,

Infrastructure, Limited

Resources and Corruption

• Weak Land and Maritime

Border Security

• Ethnic Tensions

Transformed, Expeditionary,

Trained and Ready Forces

Capable and Expeditionary

NATO

Russia as Responsible

Partner

Strategic Freedom of Action

Protection of Allies, Partners,

and U.S. Interests is Assured

?Regional Crisis Precluded

Improved Partner Nation

Capabilities and Capacities

Strategic VisionTheater Objectives & Regional Security Challenges

UNCLASSIFIED

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Strengthened Partnerships

• Forward

Defense

of Homeland

• Protect the

Interests of the

US, our Allies,

and Partners

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• Derived from National level guidance

• Supports two over-arching Strategic Objectives:

• Defend the Homeland

• Create and Maintain an Environment that Supports the

Strategic Interests of the U.S. and our Allies and Partners

• USEUCOM is uniquely positioned to actively engage our

strategic partners in Europe, Eurasia, and the Levant

• Forward presence and strategic location

• New and enduring partnerships allow us to proactively foster

opportunities and rapidly respond to challenges

EUCOM Strategy of Active Security

BUILDING PARTNERSHIP CAPACITY

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RASR: Promoting Synergy• Main Thrusts to Date:

• EUCOM J5/Offices of Defense Cooperation: have coordinated Defense

Threat Reduction Agency-led stockpile assessments in most Balkan

countries to date, and have coordinated Unexploded Ordinance

demilitarization or Physical Security/Stockpile Management training in

several countries.

• Adriatic Charter: EUCOM J5 has been engaging directly with Balkan

countries through Adriatic Charter in order to develop regional,

partnership-based solutions to common problems – demilitarization of

Unexploded Ordinance is a main agenda item

• Whole of US Government Approach: EUCOM Commander’s Interagency

Engagement Group has been engaging with DoS and USAID in order to

leverage our forward presence and military liaisons in the region

• NATO: EUCOM welcomes Slovak Republic’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Center of Excellence cooperative approach, and Czech Republic’s

Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Center of

Excellence

Building Partner Capacity is Essential to All Our Efforts

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• Key Efforts in South East Europe”:

• Albania: EOD officer one-year assignment to coordinate US military support

to demilitarization; Mobile Training Teams to develop organic expertise

• Bosnia-Herzegovina: EOD training conducted though Maryland National

Guard State Partnership Program (SPP)

• Region-wide: DTRA-led Physical Security and Stockpile Mgmt training

seminars, Small Arms Light Weapons and Man Portable Air Defense Systems

(MANPADS) assessments

• Key USEUCOM regional partnerships

• Capacity-building: On-site assessments, best practice seminars, mobile

training teams

• Coordination with regional partners/orgs: NATO / A-5 / Black Sea

Promoting a Regional Approach

BUILDING PARTNERSHIP CAPACITY

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