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ACTUALITATEA POLITICO-MILITARĂ
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integration period of time
We have the perspectives of the efforts the military
component will have to do in the pre-admission period,
for 15 months, in order to be well prepared to reply the
Alliance’s requests.
I appreciate there are no elements suggesting difficulties
in achieving the objectives/topics in defence field.
I present below the objectives we have to achieve in
pre-admission and integration period:
Objective 1: Undertaking up measures to admission
for eliminating the constitutional or legal gaps that might
be in contradiction with Romanian’s participation and
collective defence missions.
Objective 2: Implementing the Romanian’s Armed
Forces Restructure Plan on lung run for reorganisation/
developing more flexible/ better trained forces, easier to
deploy and sustain in the theatre for participating at the
whole spectrum of NATO missions.
Objective 3: To be able to employ forces and
capabilities for participating at NATO operations up to
admission.
Objective 4: Finalising the implementation of the
measures necessary for assuring the connection to
NATINEADS.
Objective 5: Establishing the arrangements of the
support of Host Nation (HNS).
Objective 6: Adapting the military educational system
and training in order to reflect the NATO’s strategy,
doctrines, procedures and standards.
Objective 7: Selection and training a certain part of the
personnel for hiring in NATO’s military commands and in
the structures connected with NATO’s commands.
Objective 8: Ensuring an efficient defence planning
process.
Objective 9: Maintaining an adequate defence
experience level for supporting the military reform.
Objective 10: Accomplishing NATO standards of
competence on learning English by the personnel assigned
to take command and General Staff positions inside the
deployable units.
Objective 11: Establishing personnel structures
compatible with NATO’s and downsizing the surplus.
Objective 12: Assuring transparent human resources
management and inserting career models, comparable
with NATO’s.
Objective 13: Eliminating the major equipment in
surplus.
5. As a future NATO member, what sort of army
do we want to have?
The need for strategic reflection on military field derives
from the fact that our country is in a deep euro-atlantic
integration process, a preparing process for admission
in EU. Therefore, there is a need for re-elaborating the
concepts and doctrines in all areas (political, economical,
and military) and reshaping the Armed Forces.
The defence planning process will have to respond to
the new status we have, as a country invited to join the
Alliance. The Romania’s Armed Forces efforts will be
focused on achieving a force structure.
A robust, credible, deployable, sustainable force
structure will get us closer to the objectives the Alliance
has stated out in the NATO’s Ministerial directive that will
be approved this May. I will mention just the excerpt on
capabilities: “NATO needs modern forces and capabilities,
credible, robust, able to perform collective defence
operations, to annihilate the risks from the distance, to
deploy the forces fast, when and where is necessary,
to self-support when there are no elements of the Host
Nation, to strike the enemy resolutely and on time using
intelligent weapons to be able to self-protect against
any aggressor, including against NBC weapons and to
work with the other Allies Force”. We must admit this
enunciation is a challenge even for the Armed Forces
already NATO members.
This is the background on which the Romania’s Armed
Forces is reshaping, stressing out the Objective Force and
the missions corresponding both to the needs of national
security and our international obligations.
16 IMPACT STRATEGIC nr. 1-2/2003