The Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) is NATO’s only establishment that is chartered to create synthetic training scenarios.
The JWC’s Scenario team provides comprehensive scenario background and supporting documentation to JWC-directed exercises, tailored to meet both NATO and national requirements, and covering the Alliance 360 degrees geographically.
The scope of these fictitious but highly realistic settings and scenarios allows for exercises in both Article-5 collective defence and non-Article 5 crisis response operations mode at various levels of effort, from divisional up to multi-corps, and across all five military domains — air, land, maritime, cyberspace and space.
Within this broad spectrum, and in addition to the conventional spectrum of warfare, the JWC scenarios can also accommodate a wide range of modern warfare threads, such as anti-access/area denial, civil-military interaction and resilience, cyber defence, hybrid warfare, and state- and non-state actor-sponsored terrorism.