HQ NRDC-ESP

Welcome to the HQ NRDC-ESP

Kabul room at the HQ NRDC-ESP

Attendees to the conference

Headquarters NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Spain hosts the 7^th LAND COS Conference from the 14^th to 16^th of June 2021 in Jaime I Military Base in Bétera (Valencia-Spain), site of the HQ NRDC-ESP.

HQ NRDC-ESP was the venue for the 7^th Allied Land Command Chiefs of Staff’s Conference with the theme “Share common understanding across NFS/NCS HQ”.

The conference, organized by NATO Allied Land Command (LANDCOM), was supported by the HQ NRDC-ESP, which is based in Bétera and Valencia (Spain). This annual conference is hosted by the Alliance Headquarters within Europe on a rotational basis and this time the city of Valencia was designated to host it.

This conference is an excellent opportunity to build shared understanding between NATO Graduated Readiness Forces – Land Headquarters. Some aims of this conference were to discuss LANDCOM’s role, as the bridge between the NATO Command Structure (NFS) and NATO Force Structure (NFS), provide a platform to discuss pertinent issues, provide insights and facilitate discussions on finding solutions, sharing information and forming a common shared visualization. Particularly, from NRDC-ESP perspective, one of the objective of this forum was to present the development of the new concept “Grey Zone”, which is being led by HQ NRDC-ESP within NATO.

The event was chaired by LANDCOM’s Chief of Staff, Major General Metin Tokel, it brought together Corps’ Chiefs of Staff from the GRF(L) community. HQ NRDC-ESP was represented by its Chief of Staff, Major General José Antonio Agüero Martínez.