The Environment Development Branch (ED), United States Joint Staff J7 (JS J7), formerly the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) J7, supports a variety of simulation environment development activities in concert with NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. Recent activities include development of the NATO Training Federation (NTF) in support of an experiment running in parallel with the “tradit...

The article presents a conceptual vision of existing and future geopolitical risks prospects for Russia-Western relations in the Baltic region. Emphasis is placed on with countries belonging to North Atlantic Alliance (NATO). Existing are considered within several important geostrategic tracks: Russia-NATO Russia-EU, as well bilateral key global regional actors. most complex turbulent those bet...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Special Operations Forces (SOF) Coordination Center (NSCC) is a new NATO memorandum of understanding (MOU) organization that is effecting rapid advancement in NATO's ability to efficiently utilize SOF at the strategic/operational level. The NSCC's lines of development in communications information systems (CIS), education, training, and real life su...

NATO MSG-085 was chartered to "Investigate approaches for the deployment of Coalition BML capabilities complementing existing operational C2 system exchange mechanisms." A recognized capability needed to achieve this is a functional NATO Operations Order (OPORD) for the Battle Management Language (BML). GMU has developed a schema for a NATO OPORD, based on our earlier work with an Army OPORD fo...

Today many NATO nations use national risk analysis methodologies (for example EBIOS for France, CRAMM for UK, ITSG-04 for Canada, MAGERIT for Spain). These methodologies, even if based on similar principles, use different threat and vulnerabilities classification. The increase of interoperability between national and NATO systems requires building up a common risk analysis methodology. A Canadi...

The Russian government has claimed that the Western powers promised at end of Cold War not to expand NATO, but later reneged on promise. Most former officials in West, and many scholars as well, have denied this was case; other scholars, along with a handful officials, believe promises effect were, fact, made 1990. So who is right? question still political importance: how it answered bearing we...

Russia’s “Special Military Operation” against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 can be counted as the biggest ever war in Europe since World War II. The rationale of operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin asserts, is that Russia even could not stay safe, prosper and survive with a NATO-leaning Ukraine. Nevertheless, present-day culmination several factors which have set stage for more bitter out...

NATO MSG-085 was chartered to "Investigate approaches for the deployment of Coalition BML capabilities complementing existing operational C2 system exchange mechanisms." A recognized capability needed to achieve this is a functional NATO Operations Order (OPORD) for the Battle Management Language (BML). GMU has developed a schema for a NATO OPORD, based on our earlier work with an Army OPORD fo...