{"id":4675,"date":"2019-01-08T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2019-01-08T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:37:10","slug":"germany-to-lead-natos-very-high-readinesss-joint-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/08\/germany-to-lead-natos-very-high-readinesss-joint-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY TO LEAD NATO\u2019S VERY HIGH READINESSS JOINT TASK FORCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/Polish_Soldiers_Beryl_Rifle-e1546990535415.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-929\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/Polish_Soldiers_Beryl_Rifle-1024x634.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Army Technology<\/p>\n<p>Germany has assumed the responsibility of Nato\u2019s very high readiness joint task force (VJTF), which is a joint force consisting of a land component supported by air, maritime and special forces.<\/p>\n<p>The VJTF will be able to deploy at short notice when tasked, between two to seven days, to combat threats against alliance sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The force is part of the alliance\u2019s larger Nato Response Force (NRF), which comprises 40,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p>The NRF\u2019s land forces will be controlled by 1st German \/ Netherlands Corps this year with the entire NRF commanded by admiral James Foggo from Nato\u2019s Joint Force Command in Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a German brigade, the 9th Panzerlehrbrigade, 2019\u2019s VJTF will comprise a multinational brigade of approximately 8,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p>Partners for this rotation include the Netherlands and Norway, which will provide capabilities such as aviation and mechanised infantry while France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania will provide forces.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.army-technology.com\/news\/germany-nato-high-readiness-joint-task-force\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Army Technology Germany has assumed the responsibility of Nato\u2019s very high readiness joint task force (VJTF), which is a joint force consisting of a land component supported by air, maritime and special forces. The VJTF will be able to deploy at short notice when tasked, between two to seven days, to combat threats against&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/08\/germany-to-lead-natos-very-high-readinesss-joint-task-force\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GERMANY TO LEAD NATO\u2019S VERY HIGH READINESSS JOINT TASK FORCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}