Building Partner Capacity Through Combat Training Centers.

摘要

To achieve strategic objectives, the U.S. forms effective coalitions with our North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners and builds their capacity before the battle through strategic engagement involving all the instruments of national power. At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) maintained significant capability to engage with these emerging partners. Anticipating decreased available military resources in the USEUCOM footprint, what are the best ways and means to execute a productive military-to-military engagement strategy that continues to build our partners capacity. What means and ways provide our partners with self-sustainable capability that maintains trust and ensures willingness to meet NATO obligations in unknown future security dilemmas. This research project examines current USEUCOM security cooperation ways and means. It considers the impact of decreasing resources on the current strategy and offers an alternative for less resource intensive, high impact partner capacity building by developing maneuver combat training center capacity in our partners.