Joint Warfare Centre

Joint Warfare Centre
Coat of arms
Active 23 October 2003–
Country  NATO
Part of Allied Command Transformation
Headquarters Stavanger, Norway
Website jwc.nato.int
Commanders
Current
commander		 Poland Major General Andrzej Reudowicz [1]

The Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) is a NATO establishment headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

It was established at Jåttå on 23 October 2003 as a subordinate command of Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT).[2] The purpose of this was to have a command with responsibility for training and exercise of the NATO headquarters. The old Joint Headquarters North (JHQ NORTH) was abolished and command transferred to the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Mission

Locations of NATO's two strategic commands — Allied Command Transformation (ACT; yellow marks) and Allied Command Operations (ACO; red marks) — the latter of which has Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) as its headquarters. The subordinate centres of ACT and subordinate commands and joint force operational headquarters of ACO are also shown.

The JWC provides NATO's training focal point for full spectrum joint operational level warfare.[2]

JWC Mission:[2]

  • Provide operational level joint training in support of ongoing operations;
  • Conduct and supports collective training of joint and combined staffs of the NATO Command Structure (NCS) and NATO Force Structure (NFS) for Major Joint Operations (MJOs) and Small Joint Operations (SJOs), integrating NATO Members' national capacities, regional security organizations' initiatives and Partnership for Peace (PfP);
  • Provide key leader training capability;
  • Support adherence to joint operational warfare doctrine and standards;
  • Assist the developmental and experimental work of Allied Command Transformation (ACT) on new concepts, technologies, modeling and simulation;
  • Performs joint analysis, collects lessons learned and feeds them back into the transformational network through the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned (JALLC).

References

  1. ↑ "JWC Biographies". 2015-10-07.
  2. 1 2 3 "JWC mission statement". 2014-01-02.
  • Gundersern, Nils (2004). "Et viktig treningssenter" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on September 25, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2006.

Coordinates: 58°54′27″N 5°43′18″E / 58.90750°N 5.72167°E / 58.90750; 5.72167


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