Posts Tagged ‘NATO’
With a number of new ships to be welcomed into the fleet this year, marking the first significant investment in a generation, 2017 is set to be the year of the Navy. Heralding the start of a new era of maritime power, new aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, patrol vessels and aircraft ...
1st January 2017 saw the UK take the lead on NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). Spearheading the force will be the 20th Armoured Infantry Brigade (20 Armd Inf Bde), who will lead the taskforce of 14 nations, with the UK contributing some 3,000 personnel. The VTJF was devised as ...
Collaboration and communication at NATO
January 2, 2017Consisting of 28 member states and thousands of staff, plus those on secondment to the agency, communications and collaboration are very important to the running of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Close collaboration between the states means many meetings and conferences, by bringing video conferencing technology to the table, decisions ...
What will a Trump presidency mean for the Defence industry?
January 1, 2017The dust is now beginning to settle following Donald Trump’s election victory to become the 45th president of the United States of America. Attention is now turning towards what life will be like once the President-elect is sworn on Friday, January 20, 2017. What his tenure as President might mean for the ...
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