{"id":869,"date":"2024-11-22T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:56:59","slug":"18th-nato-operations-research-analysis-conference-the-role-of-operational-analysis-to-enable-military-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefencenews.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"18th NATO Operations Research & Analysis Conference: The Role of Operational Analysis to Enable Military Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 18th NATO Operations Research & Analysis Conference took place from 4 to 6 November 2024 at the Residencia Militar Casta\u00f1on De Mena in M\u00e1laga, Spain. Around 140 attendees from NATO commands and agencies, national defence analysis and research organisations, Centres of Excellence, academia and industry gathered under the theme of\u00a0\u201cCollaboration to Enable Military Advantage in an Unstable World\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Co-hosted by NATO\u2019s Allied Command Transformation and the NATO Science and Technology Organization, the conference built on a longstanding tradition of fostering collaboration within the NATO Operations Research & Analysis community to create and share innovations in support of NATO\u2019s strategic objectives.<\/p>\n

The Conference addressed the critical role of operational analysis in long-term defence planning, making informed choices about resource allocation, and the use of Operations Research & Analysis methodologies to prioritise defence investments, ensuring that resources are effectively directed toward long-term stability.<\/p>\n

Attendees were also informed on influences and shifts in Russian military thought and strategy since 2014, underscoring the importance of understanding adversarial perspectives to enhance NATO\u2019s strategic planning and readiness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The role of the analytic community is to support political and military decision-making through long-term thinking analysis. [\u2026] The key to NATO\u2019s technological edge is our scientific edge. Beyond laboratories and Research & Development, the key to that edge is our people.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Dr Bryan Wells, NATO\u2019s Chief Scientist<\/em><\/p>\n

Military officers are tacticians by instinct; analysts will automatically frame the question in strategic terms, not because they are superior but because framing questions in strategic terms is intuitive to their way of thinking.<\/p>\n

\u2013 General (Ret) Sverre Diesen, former Chief of Defence of Norway<\/em><\/p>\n

It is important to look backwards at past research and analysis to see where we made mistakes and where we got things right.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Professor Katri Pynn\u00f6niemi, Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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