Impact strategic nr.6-7 - Centrul de Studii Strategice de Apărare şi ...

ACTUALITATEA POLITICO-MILITARĂ
can compress the titles. As a result, we will be sure the
instruction process reflects the army’s reform, the doctrine
and the procedures adopted. The recent military events
(2001-2003) are pointing out the impact of morale and
human factor for the success of warfare. The educational
restructure plan has to be finished during this year.
Another area mentioned in the reform process is about
applying the automatic reporting system that will increase
the capability of following and managing the leading
military actions.
We are also implementing the Military Career Guide
– 2001, even though this has been re-evaluated based
on the present conclusions. The Guide has improved the
transparency of managing personnel and its improvement
seems to be a natural stage.
The NCO’s training has been a remarkable success.
The NCOs Training Centre fully meets the modernity
and efficiency requirements and some of the titles for
NCOs are on the paying role of the units. There has been
elaborated a plan to follow the progress in career of NCOs
that will allow the soldier to pass from the basic instruction
to all the usual functions for a NCO and all the educational
opportunities, assuring the promotion possibility and
even being admitted to a NCO school if his performance
guarantees this.
All personnel actions are targeted on assuring a
management similar to the other NATO’s members.
Meantime, we are committed to assure a fully compatible
system with NATO’s standards.
On the next period we focus on finishing the Objective
Force and on revising the Military Career Guide, stressing
the equal promotion opportunities and implementing the
personnel pyramid.
3. Interoperability with NATO’s force and
the cooperation with the Alliance
Our capability of working together with NATO’s forces
has significantly improved by our participation in KFOR,
SFOR, Afghanistan, and Gulf or other peace support
operations or PfP exercises. Romania has proved that
it is ready and able to take the responsibilities of a fully
NATO’s member. However, there are many things to be
done on instruction and modernisation areas.
The critical points of our command and control system
– The Military Command Centre, the headquarters of our
armed forces, ASOC, the main air bases and the important
structures of air defence – are already interconnected due
to STAR communication system and our capability of
establishing safe communication with NATO, strategic
commands and allies is already achieved. The satellite
communications are available for the support of the
operational requirements. All these forces assigned for
NATO have already safe tactical radios. Moreover, ASOC
has been in use since 1999 as the main air centre for
the operational command in Bucharest. There has been
signed an acquisition contract for low altitude radars that
will allow a whole image of air space. It is the last main
component of the air control programme as a forerunner
for the connection with NATINEADS.
Romanian’s Armed Forces have proved they are
deployable and may sustain a limited number of forces
by military means and civil for peace and multinational
operations. It is obvious there have to be increased the
air and water capacities. We are looking for buying new
transport planes and containers needed for a modern and
efficient transport; on long run we aim at the configuration
of a containered fight transport.
The partnership objectives required significant efforts
because all of them implied the improvement of the
force capability. Up to now there have been finalised 40
objectives partnership (out of 84) and we have committed
to implement all of them till the end of planning period,
except the one about the acquisition of vaccines stocks.
Acquisition strategy is mentioned as an essential
element for implementing the Objective Force. For being
sure we will be fully able to handle the objectives we have
as a NATO member, this strategy will be included in the
planning directive in order to implement some programs,
starting with the planning period for 2004-2009.
It is obvious that for achieving interoperability the
nominated force in NATO/PfP collective defence and
regional initiatives missions took over. Taking into account
the financial component, efforts are done for enduring
the nominated forces with interoperable communication,
informational means and modern equipment in order to
participate on the NATO/PfP missions, able to sustain
deployable forces in the theatre.
Romanian significantly contributed at NATO’s support
peace missions or other international missions and we
have been consistent on our offer for collective defence.
There has been working hard on identifying the right
infrastructure that meets all the requirements imposed by
NATO’s standards in order to be at the disposal during
the support process of a host nation. Therefore, there has
been elaborated the Catalogue of the Support of the Host
Nation that has been sent to NATO’s command and to its
main commands. There will be elaborated the concept and
procedures regarding the support of the Host Nation and
there will be done a HNS database using ADAMS program
and we will have to establish on common agreement the
needs and priorities.
4. Objectives to be fulfilled in the pre-admission
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