Military Committee visits Allied Land Command

Photo By Lt. Col. David Olson | IZMIR, Turkey – Netherlands Army Lt. Gen. Jan Broeks, the Director General of the International Military Staff, who provides advice to the Military Committee (MC) and member nations, discussed several topics with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John Thomson, the Commander of NATO Allied Land Command (LANDCOM), during the MC tour of LANDCOM facilities, Feb. 21, 2019. The MC visited LANDCOM Headquarters to learn more about the role of LANDCOM in the NATO Command Structure. (NATO photo by U.S. Army David Olson, LANDCOM Public Affairs.)  

IZMIR, TURKEY

03.04.2019

Story by Lt. Col. David Olson 

NATO-Allied Land Command (LANDCOM)

Military Committee visits LANDCOM
By U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Olson, LANDCOM Public Affairs
IZMIR, Turkey – NATO Headquarters’ Military Committee (MC) visited Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) Headquarters on Febr. 20 and 21, 2019, to learn more about LANDCOM’s role in the NATO Command Structure.
The visit consisted of three sessions on the first day. The MC met with the Host Nation for the first session receiving a presentation from the Turkish General Staff that highlighted Turkey’s commitment to NATO. The next two sessions, the MC learned many details about LANDCOM and especially the roles of being a Multi-Corps Land Component Command and a Theater Land Component Command. The second day focused on touring LANDCOM facilities including the cultural experience of seeing historical Ephesus.
Lt. Gen. John Thomson, the LANDCOM Commander, and several key LANDCOM staff officers presented crucial information to the MC to assist them in understanding LANDCOM’s role in the land domain.
Thomson explained the primary things that LANDCOM does. LANDCOM builds and sustains readiness, conducts mission command, and is the land advocate for various topics. “We welcome a land strategy on which we can base a campaign plan,” Thomson articulated.
British Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, the Chairman of the MC, praised LANDCOM and thanked them for the tremendous visit. “This was a really good discussion today. We’ll take this information that we received on this visit back to Brussels. We’ll talk about these topics in our discussions, [because] the decisions we make now will have significant impacts for the future,” Peach said. This was a historic visit for the MC, because it was the first time a military representative from North Macedonia participated.

• Date Taken: 03.04.2019
• Date Posted: 03.04.2019 13:37
• Story ID: 312771
• Location: IZMIR, TR