NATIONAL SUPPORT ELEMENT – MISSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES –
NATIONAL SUPPORT ELEMENT – MISSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES –

Summary/Abstract: The Allied Joint Movement and Transportation Doctrine defines the national support element as a primarily logistic unit, temporarily established, to support national forces acting in a NATO multinational operation. According to this doctrine, the mission of the national support element is to ensure the necessary conditions for receiving, deploying to the area of operations and returning to the country the national forces and their coordination with the host country and the NATO commander of the respective operation. The organisation and responsibilities of the national support element are assigned to the country that participates with forces in the multinational operation. Even if the new approaches to the logistic processes of modern armed forces attach more and more importance to multinational logistic solutions, the current evolutions and estimates still provide the national support element with a significant role in the medium term in the theatre of operations.

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