Since the turn of the decade NATO has made major improvements in the architecture supporting maritime command and control (C2). As late as the early 1990s, shore-based NATO commanders exercized command and control over their operating forces at sea more or less as had been done during World War II: via paper signals, grease-pencil status boards, metal-backed map boards, and magnetic pucks—repre...

Embedded virtual simulation, employed in many NATO training communities, is a key to addressing urgent training needs in areas that stretch the capabilities offered by conventional simulation techniques. Of particular relevance to NATO are training needs such communication and tactical team coordination. This paper will summarize some needs in training and mission planning that remain unmet, di...

increase of influence and dominance over independent republics of central assia and caucasus in order to utilize the natural overflowing sources of this region is in immense strategy of america in future. therefore, by expanding nato into this region america is trying to decrease the influence of russia in these republics and in the meantime fulfilling the above purpose and also to prevent the ...