NATO Force Integration Unit

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The NATO Force Integration Unit is (NFIU) a headquarters of NATO in Eastern and Central European space and link between the NATO alliance and the armed forces of the NATO allies and the Member State, the NFIU is in the. The NATO Force Integration Unit has been set up since September 2016 and consists of at least 42 soldiers each.

history

Due to the Crimean crisis and the war in Ukraine in 2014/15 , NATO initiated the 'Readiness Action Plan' (RAP) to protect NATO's eastern flank at the summit in Newport ( Wales ) on September 4th and 5th, 2014. It is intended to increase the speed of reaction of the NATO Response Force (NRF). The Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) should, according to the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg faster, be more agile and more capable than the current NATO Response Force (NRF) NATO and should be placed in high readiness.

organization

Opening of the NFIU HQ in Tallinn by the Commander of the Estonian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Riho Terras and the Commander of the Multinational Corps North-East, Lieutenant General Manfred Hofmann , in June 2016
Signing for the formation of an NFIU in Poland by General Salvatore Farina , Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, and Mieczysław Gocuł , Commander of the Polish Armed Forces in April 2016

For the rapid deployment of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, small command and control facilities, so-called NATO Force Integration Units (NFIU), are set up in Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Slovakia , Romania and Hungary and are rotated occupied. The NFIU is primarily intended to prepare a possible NATO deployment of the troops on standby so that they can be deployed without any major delay. In addition, an NFIU has other tasks, for example supporting multinational exercises in the respective country.

The NFIU work closely with offices in the host country to explore logistical networks, questions of transport and support in the infrastructure. With the help of the NFIUs, some units of the VJTF should be ready for use in just two days.

Dislocation of the NFIU

Under the command of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum and operational control by the Multinational Corps North-East (MNC NE) in Szczecin , Poland :

Under the command of the Allied Joint Force Command Naples and operational control by the Multinational Corps South-East (MNC SE) in Bucharest , Romania (previously in Naples, Italy):

  • NATO Force Integration Unit Bulgaria in Sofia , Bulgaria ,
  • NATO Force Integration Unit Romania in Bucharest, Romania.

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