5.3: Reforms & Efficiencies
Improve capabilities more rapidly. Other Information:
If NATO is to keep pace with evolving threats, it must improve its capabilities more rapidly than it has. The challenge of
catching up is aggravated by a less than favourable economic climate. The best and most realistic way to close the gap is
through a commitment to efficiency measures and other reforms. The economic and military logic behind such reforms is clear,
yet nations may still be reluctant to undertake them. Leadership is required. Recommendation: 1. A balanced package of reform
and efficiency proposals should be developed by the Secretary General in time for presentation to the heads of government
at the Lisbon summit. As part of this package, NATO should encourage: - new, truly multinational formations with unified command
and control, - interdependent logistics and integrated civilian-military components; - new informal pooling arrangements,
especially for lift; - increased NATO common funding and interoperability for C4ISR; - common approaches to logistics; - the
further evolution and coordination of national specialisation and niche capabilities; - exploration of opportunities for additional
multinational procurement programs; - development of a NATO/EU defence capabilities agency; - using common funds for costs
related to selected deployments, including an annual exercise of the NRF; and - a further review of NATO's command structure
for the purpose of reducing costs and enhancing force flexibility and deployability.
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