7 Oct 2003

Dynamic Response ‘07 The 2003 Informal NATO Defense Ministerial Crisis Management Study Seminar News 8-9/10/2003 - NATO Informal Defence Ministers Meetings, Colorado Springs 12-13/06/2003 - NATO New command structure and capabilities for NATO Background SHAPE The NATO Response Force NATO New NATO command structure Official Texts 12/06/2003 - NATO Final communiqué - Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Defence Ministers session Dynamic Response ’07 is a crisis management study seminar designed to provide NATO leaders with an opportunity to examine the Alliance’s future security environment and NATO’s potential role. During the study seminar, Defence Ministers, Chiefs of Defence Staff, NATO Ambassadors, and senior Alliance officials will reflect on the future transformation of the Alliance’s military capabilities. Dynamic Response ’07 will enable them to think creatively about NATO’s approaches to crisis management on the basis of fictitious events set in an imaginary country in 2007. The study seminar will stimulate discussion of the character of the risks the Alliance may face in the years to come and steps that NATO may need to take, both now and in the future, in order to meet them. The aim of the study seminar is to explore what transformation actually means for the Alliance and how the NATO Response Force (NRF) could be used in future crises and conflicts. Dynamic Response ’07 is designed to help participants: achieve a common understanding of what must be done to fully realise the NATO transformation agenda agreed by Alliance heads of state and government at last November’s Prague Summit; gain a better understanding of new asymmetric threats, especially in relation to weapons of mass destruction and terrorism; gain an appreciation of how the threats which NATO faces and is likely to face in the future will shape the Alliance’s transformation; and demonstrate the ability of the NRF to operate within the new security environment. The study seminar will be conducted in the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC). JNIC provides the ideal setting to model future challenges to the Alliance, as well as the needs of senior military commanders expected to operate in an Alliance and coalition environment. Following the study seminar, NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson and US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, the host, will meet the press at 3.30 PM at the Broadmoor Hotel Media Center.