STAVANGER, Norway – The Main Events List/Main Incidents List (MEL/MIL) Scripting Workshop for NATO Exercise STEADFAST JUPITER 2023 (STJU23) concluded on July 11, with more than 400 external personnel taking part.
The workshop helped create a realistic exercise content that supports all primary training objectives of the exercise, as well as the geo-strategic situation presented in the fictitious Article 5 scenario developed by the JWC.
Sponsored by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and directed by the JWC, the long-planned exercise is designed to test NATO’s responsiveness, command and control, and defence posture in a highly challenging multi-threat environment, based on a multi-domain, multi-joint operational area scenario.
STJU23 is NATO’s largest and most complex CAX/CPX to date. The defensive exercise ranges from small joint operation to major joint operation-plus scale, involving over 24 training audiences, including SHAPE as warfighting headquarters and the NATO Response Force 2024 (NRF24).
Planning for STJU23 started in November 2021 with the execution phase set to take place in the autumn of 2023.
The exercise aim and exercise objectives, as defined within the Exercise Specification (EXSPEC), provides a framework in which to nest the training objectives, explained Mr Robert, the JWC’s training event development analyst.
“Development of training objectives is a time-consuming process, especially in exercises involving multiple training audiences. At the JWC, training objectives and specific supporting tasks are assigned to each incident/storyline during the incident development workshop and are applied at the scripting workshop,” he added.
