Transcript ACO Command Structure ALLIED COMMAND OPERATIONS Strategic level Mons/BEL Joint Forces Command MARCOMM LANDCOMM AIRCOMM Joint Forces Command The Netherlands UK TURKEY GERMANY Italy INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE FORCE OPERATION OCEAN SHIELD ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR KOSOVO FORCE AIR POLICING SUPPORT TO AFRICAN UNION Combined Air Operation Centre Germany Communication Deployable and Information Systems Combined Air Group Operation Centre Italy Signals.

ACO Command Structure
ALLIED COMMAND OPERATIONS
Strategic
level
Mons/BEL
Joint Forces Command
MARCOMM
LANDCOMM
AIRCOMM
Joint Forces Command
The Netherlands
UK
TURKEY
GERMANY
Italy
INTERNATIONAL
SECURITY ASSISTANCE
FORCE
OPERATION
OCEAN SHIELD
ACTIVE
ENDEAVOUR
KOSOVO
FORCE
AIR
POLICING
SUPPORT TO
AFRICAN UNION
Combined Air
Operation Centre
Germany
Communication
Deployable
and Information Systems
Combined Air
Group
Operation Centre
Italy
Signals Battalion
Signals Battalion
Signals Battalion
Italy
Germany
Poland
Combined Air
Operation Centre
Spain
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
Total ~ 6000
New ACO Structure
SHAPE
(Mons)
1 NSB
ACCI
Allied Command
Operations
(ACO)
Colour Key
Joint
Air
Land
2 NSB
Maritime
HQ
NCISG
(Mons)
3 NSB
HQ
JFC BS
(Brunssum)
NSHQ
(Mons)
SOF
HQ
LANDCOM
(Izmir)
HQ
AIRCOM
(Ramstein)
HQ M
ARCOM
(Northwood)
CAOC
(Uedem)
CAOC
(Torrejon)
DACCC
(Poggio
Renatico)
HQ
JFC NP
(Naples)
Deployable
NATO Force Structure
HRFs (M)
NAEW
AGS
NRDCs
SFN
ASC
JEWCS
The
OPERATIONS
NATO Funding
Funding Crisis Response Operations
“COSTS LIE WHERE
THEY FALL”
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
Operations - General
KFOR
Air Policing /
Air Surveillance
NATO HQs in
Skopje, Sarajevo &
MLO Belgrade
Support to EU
Op ALTHEA
Operation ACTIVE
ENDEAVOR
ISAF
NATO Support to Turkey
NATO Support to the
African Union
Operation OCEAN
SHIELD
NATO
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
6
ISAF Mission Statement
ISAF, in partnership with the Afghan Government and the
International
Community
conducts
comprehensive,
population-centric counterinsurgency operations
in order to:
• protect the people
• neutralize insurgent networks
• develop Afghan National Security Forces
• support the establishment of legitimate, credible, and
enduring
governance,
security
and
sustainable
socio-economic growth
In order to deny terrorists safe havens and ensure GIRoA
stability and sovereignty not later then 31 Dec 14
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
7
Afghanistan in Context
Size:
652.000 km2 (GERMANY: 357 021) km2)
Population: 31 Million (estimate)
Kosovo
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
Tribal areas