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NATO HQ Website News --- The NATO Military Committee visited Norway for a three-day trip to NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters in Bodø.

Read more: NATO’s Military Committee visits JWC

Today, the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) successfully completed the first ISAF Mission Rehearsal Training ever conducted in the superior training environment of its new training facility at Jatta, Stavanger.

Read more: ISAF TE 13-01 concludes

Professor Marit Boyesen, Rector of the University of Stavanger, and Professor Kenneth Pettersen, the university’s Head of Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety, visited NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) on Tuesday 4 June.

Read more: Rector and faculty member from University of Stavanger visited JWC

Vice Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Commander Norwegian National Joint Headquarters, visited NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) on Tuesday 28 May.

Read more: Commander Norwegian National Joint HQ visits JWC

JWC personnel in the last four weeks actively participated in a preparation exercise for the NATO Response Force (NRF) as the different NATO Headquarters earmarked for NRF 2014 conducted a Crisis Response Planning Exercise.

Read more: JWC Supports NATO Response Force Preparation

A 25-person Operational Liaison and Reconnaissance Team (OLRT) led by NATO’s Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFC Brunssum), together with some of its subordinate Component Commands for NATO Response Force (NRF) 2014, supported a Crisis Response Planning from 11 to 15 May at the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) in preparation for STEADFAST JAZZ 13 (SFJZ 13), which is scheduled for this November.

Read more: Yet another step forward for NRF 2014

This year’s National Day celebrations will bring the internationally acclaimed French Navy Band Le Bagad de Lann-Bihoué to Stavanger for a variety of top outdoor public performances. On 17 May the Bagad will also march in the colourful Folketoget parade.

Read more: 60 years high in colours: Le Bagad de Lann-Bihoué

The JWC’s Warfare Conference concluded on Wednesday after two days of provocative, insightful presentations and the engaged focussed activity in the syndicates.

Read more: "Participants contributed to a worthy cause"

A team of 16 exercise planners from the Joint Warfare Centre is just back from a two-week Training Refinement Conference in Kabul. The purpose of the team’s trip was to plan the details of the scenario for the upcoming International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) exercise, which will run this spring.

Read more: Training Refinement Conference in Kabul

Today marks the start of NATO’s first Warfare Conference, which is being held at the Joint Warfare Centre, Stavanger, Norway, with the aim to explore how NATO and Partner and Member Nations can improve and promulgate doctrine development throughout the Alliance.

Read more: NATO’s two-day Warfare Conference starts off strong in Stavanger

NATO’s ACT organization held its 21^st TIDE Sprint from 15 to 19 April 2013 at the JWC’s state-of-the-art training facility in Stavanger, Norway.

Read more: JWC hosted ACT’s TIDE Sprint 2013

15 officers from the General Staff College of the German Armed Forces, or Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, visited NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) on Tuesday 26 February 2013 following a guided tour of Stavanger earlier in the morning.

Read more: Visit of German General Staff College

NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) conducted the sixth Individual Augmentee Pre-Deployment Training (IAPDT) 13/01 at its training facility in Jåttå from 19 to 25 March 2013.

Read more: IAPDT 13/01

This is a reminder that the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) will be conducting its first Warfare Conference April 23-24, 2013. The deadline for submitting your application is Friday, March 22 to secure your accommodation.

Read more: Reminder: JWC Warfare Conference

The magazine's online edition can be found here: http://www.jwc.nato.int/three-swords-archive/blog

NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) deployed a team of twelve officers and civilians to Kabul, Afghanistan, from 18 to 28 February to prepare for the ISAF Training Event to be held in June.

Read more: JWC’s Resolute Support

72 students from the Norwegian Defence Staff College visited NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) on Tuesday 26 February 2013.

Read more: Norwegian Defence Staff College visits JWC

Staff from the JWC, NCIA Squadron and Norwegian National Support Element on Tuesday 26 February 2013 enjoyed the Jåttå community’s first White Day Event at Ålsheia Ski Arena in Sirdal.

Read more: JWC White Day

The Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) senior leadership on 19-20 February 2013 conducted an organisational culture workshop, facilitated by representatives of Senn Delaney (a leading organisational culture consulting company).

Read more: Workshop to institutionalize purposeful leadership and breed a high-performance culture

Norwegian Army Major General Robert Mood, who is currently serving as the Inspector General Veteran Affairs of the Norwegian Armed Forces, visited NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) on Thursday 21 February.

Read more: Major General Robert Mood, former UN Mission Head in Syria, visits JWC