Joint Warfare Centre

Joint Warfare Centre
Coat of arms
Founded	23 October 2003; 20 years ago (2003-10-23)
Part of	Allied Command Transformation
Headquarters	Stavanger, Norway
Website	www.jwc.nato.int
Commanders
Current commander	Major General Piotr Malinowski

It was established at Jåttå on 23 October 2003 as a subordinate command of Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT). 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.

 

 

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.

The mission of the Joint Warfare Centre is to:

• 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.

The Commanders and Directors of the Joint Warfare Centre:

 

Nr.	Name	Country	Commencement of post	End of post
10	Generał dywizji Piotr Malinowski	Poland	October 2021
9	Konteradmiral Jan C. Kaack	Germany	July 2019	October 2021
8	Generał dywizji Andrzej Reudowicz [pl]	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