CREATING AND RECREATING NATO MILITARY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: A WAY TO EXPORT NORD ATLANTIC MODEL

The hypothesis I start from is that education, training, exercises, standardisation and technical support are basic "pillars" of NATO interoperability. Historically, NATO education has been focused on ensuring that military forces from member countries can work together effectively in operations and humanitarian assistance missions, construction and post-conflict reconstruction missions. Today, NATO education functions have expanded significantly. NATO has a network of schools and institutions, conducts regular exercises and runs training missions as far away as Afghanistan. The main purpose is to enhance the interoperability and effectiveness of NATO-led multinational forces. Military experts have repeatedly stressed the absolute importance of education and training considering interoperability as a mind-set that needs to be acquired as soon as possible in an educational training programme for military personnel or in the guide of their military career development. Interoperability remains a challenge for NATO due to the complex involvement of its 28 member nations having diverging political and economic interests. Nations try to support some of the ideas developed by the Alliance on the increase in "connectivity" but it seems that not all of them will have the same promising support. To be achieved, interoperability needs time to mature and it should be executed bottom-up and top-down, namely by national governments and NATO command structures. That the main reason why the educational system must be in line with all these changes and to be designed taking in account the new geopolitical trends. The continuous transformation is the constant of our times, we have to create agile systems and resilient to respond to the newest needs of education.