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<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+4">Training and Exercises for</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+4">Partnership for Peace</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+3">General Helge Hansen</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><I><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+2">Commander-in-Chief
Allied Forces Central Europe</FONT></FONT></I></CENTER>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">INTRODUCTORY REMARKS</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">As some of you may know, I was
born in Dresden in the officers' quarters of the former military academy.
I left the city in 1943 and returned to Dresden for the NATO Workshop as
Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe. It means a lot to me to
be in a city that is building up again, in a united Germany, in a reunited
Europe, and to address a transatlantic audience.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">CHANGES IN SECURITY
REQUIRE CHANGES IN TRAINING</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Let me turn now to the subject
of training and holding exercises within the Alliance. Needless to say, as
a consequence of the changes in our security environment, a reduction in
forces, the restructuring of our command structure, the new multinational
dimension, and the vastly expanded and extended mission spectrum, the
requirements for training and holding exercises have dramatically changed.
We must now change our training and exercise philosophy, develop new
concepts, and pursue our programs vigorously.</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">The mission spectrum that used
to consist simply of high-intensity conflict now ranges from search and
rescue to humanitarian assistance to peace-support operations up to
high-intensity conflict; it is obvious that this development requires
totally new answers. Since the lower end of the mission spectrum--search
and rescue, peace-support operations, and humanitarian
assistance--includes our Partnership for Peace (PFP) Partners,
coordination with them is one of the most important features and
preconditions of our new training and exercise requirements.</FONT></FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Partnership for Peace exercises
have now gained almost a 50% share in our overall exercise program. The
Central Region is at the forefront of these exercises and needs to
accommodate the majority of PFP exercise initiatives in this theater. The
short-term objective is clear: to be better able to operate with Alliance
forces, with our PFP neighbors, in the spectrum of search and rescue,
humanitarian assistance, and peacekeeping operations. We plan to
concentrate on what the Alliance military structure can do best, and leave
to the individual nations what they can do best. The long-term goal is to
develop forces that are better able to operate with the NATO Alliance in
the full spectrum of operational missions.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
EXERCISES</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">In the Central Region last year
we held two exercises, COOPERATIVE SPIRIT in the Netherlands and
COOPERATIVE BRIDGE in Poland. Militarily, these were very low-level
exercises, comprised mainly of platoon and company-level forces. But the
political importance of these exercises was high: for the first time on
Polish soil and for the first time on Netherlands soil, armed forces of
Alliance and Partnership for Peace nations got together and started
training for peacekeeping operations. In addition, the preparation for
these exercises involved staff officers of all levels, and so the
exercises also contributed to training the staff personnel for the
multinational headquarters we need to set up in the future.</FONT></FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Let me now turn to the 1995
program in particular. Headquarters Allied Forces Central Europe has
embarked on a new series of exercises under the umbrella title "CENTRAL
ECLECTIC." Exercise CENTRAL ECLECTIC 1995 in late June is the first
out of area peacekeeping exercise at the Major Subordinate Command (MSC)
level, as well as the first Partnership for Peace exercise at the
operational level. We started with seminars, workshops, and planning
sessions, not just to plan the exercise as such, but also to enter into a
full cycle of operational planning. By doing so, we educated ourselves and
our Partnership for Peace colleagues in how to develop operational
campaign plans for peace support, search and rescue, and humanitarian
operations. Next year we will take developments one stage further and use
the scenario developed in CENTRAL ECLECTIC for a full scale Command Post
Exercise and set up a multinational joint peacekeeping headquarters. This
exercise will be known as Exercise COMPACT GUARD 96.</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Our 1995 program will conclude
this autumn with two brigade level exercises: One, Exercise COOPERATIVE
CHALLENGE, in the Czech Republic and the other, Exercise COOPERATIVE
LIGHT, in Hungary. At the same time Allied Command Baltic Approaches has
been running a series of seminars, leading to a series of maritime
exercises called Exercise COOPERATIVE JAGUAR.</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">The principal element in our
1996 program will be Exercise COMPACT GUARD which I have already
mentioned. It will be linked to SACEUR's AMF(L) crisis management
exercise, Exercise ADVENTURE EXPRESS. This therefore will be the first
time the AMF(L) has participated in the PFP program, and it will furnish
the principal element of the land component. We will also exercise a
multinational joint logistics command and a joint movement coordination
center along the lines of those which may have to be set up to support
operations in former Yugoslavia. We envisage a series of modular staff
cells like these to ensure that we have the necessary capabilities readily
available for all sorts of crisis responses in the future. Involving our
PFP Partners in the running of these modules means that we could readily
absorb their personnel should this be required.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">THE NEED FOR REALISTIC
QUALITY TRAINING</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">In NATO-led U.N. peacekeeping
missions, we must plan, deploy forces, and sustain forces. To do this we
must train and exercise realistically. We need to use real geography for
obvious reasons, but also generic political geography. We must have a view
of our mission spectrum and do it jointly with our PFP Partners.</FONT></FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Clearly, we should go for
quality instead of quantity in our exercises and our training. Sometimes a
little less is a lot more; political initiatives may speed up a program,
but they may also overtax the structure and overtax the main players in
the game. We should not overtax ourselves, we should "Crawl before we
walk, and walk before we run." We need time. As a non-native English
speaker, I know that it is a tremendous challenge to think continually in
a foreign language. Our PFP Partners must operate in totally different
military headquarters, command structures and cultures, and this is very,
very exhausting. We must take that into account. So in my view, we should
have the courage to confine ourselves to what can be achieved and not push
for success at all costs. We also need to establish the degree of
continuity that is required to pursue these kinds of activities and
develop a concept and methodology that allows for planning. We are engaged
in a great challenge, a totally new dimension and, as a professional, I
believe it to be extremely rewarding work.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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