Key Points
- NATO is increasingly looking to acquire joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities
- The move underpins the alliance’s ‘defence and deterrence’ measures
The ability to early detect threats to its home territory and the security situation around its periphery is what lies behind NATO’s new ‘defence and deterrence’ measures, announced at its 8-9 July summit in Warsaw. This points to the allies’ emerging shift in favour of joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (JISR) capabilities and how they plan to achieve it.
The replacement of NATO’s current E-3 AWACS fleet will form part of the alliances joint ISR efforts. (NATO E-3 Component)
Recent and forthcoming policy developments, for example, will set in motion a chain of budgetary initiatives, hardware developments, industry studies, and other measures to provide NATO’s political and military commanders with trenchant, near real-time strategic JISR data streams in the future.
“This is a bigger change [in attitude] for the alliance than it appears on the surface,” a veteran NATO official told IHS Jane’s in Warsaw on 7 July. “You’re looking at common funding for JISR, the distribution of intelligence across the allies on an equal basis and maybe even the possibility of bridging the civil-military intelligence split within the alliance. Those are no small step-changes in collective thinking for the 28.”
The first step in NATO’s JISR ambitions will be the allies’ summit approval to create a new post of Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence (ASG-I). This will carry both symbolic and practical import.
“This will finally enable us to answer the question: ‘Who is your Mr. Intelligence at NATO?'”, said the official, adding that one of the ASG-I’s tasks will be to steer and knit together military and civil intelligence streams because “we are still grappling to overcome that military/civil split.”
No names are yet circulating for the new post but the most likely candidate will come from one of the three NATO members of the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States), according to allied diplomatic sources, who said Canada has expressed strong interest in the position.
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