About Longbow | Exercise Cooperative Longbow |
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The aim of Exercise Cooperative Longbow is to deliver Multinational Brigade Land staff training with Air integration training based on a Crisis Response Operations Command Post Exercise. Key tasks involve securing sensitive points and assuring a safe and secure environment by performing Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations, Counter-Terrorism and Consequence Management missions in order to prevent the destabilization of an emerging country.
What does all this mean?It means that to be effective, NATO and its partner countries have to use the same standardized procedures and perform to the same high standards. Cooperative Longbow 2009 enables participants to train in a headquarters environment, and does not actually involve the deployment of troops. For example, one fictitious scenario might involve a military vehicle conducting patrols.
NATO countries participating in Cooperative Longbow 2009:
Partner countries participating in Cooperative Longbow 2009:
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| Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 May 2009 ) |
While patrolling a certain area, the vehicle strikes a roadside bomb. Training staff inject the scenario and look to see how trainees are going to respond. Trainees are expected to work through the problem; how is information about the incident communicated through military channels? What actions need to be taken? How do we manage our resources? How do we respond to media? Another scenario might involve the evacuation of civilians from an unstable area. How will that be done? What needs to be considered? Where do we take them? How are we going to transport them? How will we feed them? How do we coordinate with other relevant organisations.