Joint Warfare Centre

Joint Warfare Centre
Coat of arms
Founded	23 October 2003;21 years ago (2003-10-23)
Type	Military education and training
Role	Collective security
Part of	Allied Command Transformation
Headquarters	Jåttånuten  [ no ], Stavanger, Norway
Motto(s)	Training NATO. Advancing Doctrine. Integrating Concepts
Website	www.jwc.nato.int
Commanders
Current commander	Major General Ruprecht Horst Butler [1]   German Army

The Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) is a NATO establishment headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

It was established at Jåttå on 23 October 2003 as a subordinate command of Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT). ^[2] The purpose of this was to have a command with responsibility for training and exercise of the NATO headquarters. The old Joint Headquarters North (JHQ NORTH) was abolished and command transferred to the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk, Virginia, US.

Mission

SHAPE

    AC

LC

MC

JFCBS

JFCNP

JFC NF

  JSEC

HQ SACT

JWC

JFTC

JALLC

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Locations of NATO's two strategic commands — Allied Command Transformation (ACT) with its subordinate centres (blue marks) and Allied Command Operations (ACO), headquartered at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and including its subordinate and joint force commands (red marks).

The JWC provides NATO's training focal point for full spectrum joint operational level warfare. ^[2]

The mission of the Joint Warfare Centre is to: ^[2]

• Provide operational level joint training in support of ongoing operations;
• Conduct and supports collective training of joint and combined staffs of the NATO Command Structure (NCS) and NATO Force Structure (NFS) for Major Joint Operations (MJOs) and Small Joint Operations (SJOs), integrating NATO members' national capacities, regional security organizations' initiatives and Partnership for Peace (PfP);
• Provide key leader training capability;
• Support adherence to joint operational warfare doctrine and standards;
• Assist the developmental and experimental work of Allied Command Transformation on new concepts, technologies, modeling and simulation;
• Performs joint analysis, collects lessons learned and feeds them back into the transformational network through the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre.

POLITICAL-STRATEGIC LEVEL:

North Atlantic Council (NAC) NATO Headquarters, Brussels, BEL

Secretary-General (SECGEN) NATO Headquarters, Brussels, BEL

International Staff (IS) NATO Headquarters, Brussels, BEL

MILITARY-STRATEGIC LEVEL:

International Military Staff (IMS) NATO Headquarters, Brussels, BEL

Military Committee (MC) NATO Headquarters, Brussels, BEL

STRATEGIC COMMANDS:

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Norfolk, U.S.

Supreme Allied Commander Europe Allied Command Operations (ACO) Mons, BEL

TRANSFORMATION COMMANDS:

OPERATIONAL COMMANDS:

Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) Stavanger, NOR

Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFC Brunssum) Brunssum, NLD

Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) Ramstein, DEU

Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC) Bydgoszcz, POL

Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) Naples, ITA

Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) İzmir, TUR

Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC) Lisbon, PRT

Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFC Norfolk) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.

Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) Northwood, GBR

Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC) Ulm, DEU

Commanders and Directors

The Commanders and Directors of the Joint Warfare Centre:

Général de division Jean-Fred Berger, Commander JWC June 2011 to June 2013

Nr.	Name	Country	Commencement of post	End of post
11	Generalmajor Ruprecht von Butler	Germany	September 2024
10	Generał dywizji Piotr Malinowski	Poland	October 2021	September 2024
9	Konteradmiral Jan C. Kaack	Germany	July 2019	October 2021
8	Generał dywizji Andrzej Reudowicz	Poland	July 2016	July 2019
7	Generalmajor Reinhard Wolski  [ de ]	Germany	September 2014	July 2016
6	Generalleutnant Erhard Bühler	Germany	June 2013	September 2014
5	Général de division Jean-Fred Berger	France	June 2011	June 2013
4	Generalleutnant Wolfgang Korte  [ de ]	Germany	July 2007	June 2011
3	Air Marshal Peter Walker	United Kingdom	February 2005	July 2007
2	Major-General James Short	United Kingdom	September 2004	February 2005
1	Generalløytnant Thorstein Skiaker	Norway	October 2003	September 2004

References

1. "Ruprecht von Butler". NATO. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
2. "JWC mission statement". 2014-01-02. Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2014-02-01.

• Gundersern, Nils (2004). "Et viktig treningssenter" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on September 25, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2006.

External links

• Official website

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