The European Union will extend its rapid-reaction battlegroup concept — currently applied only to land forces — to Europe’s air and naval forces by the end of this year, according to EU officials and military planners.
Unlike the union’s growing number of stand-by, multination army battlegroups, however, there will be no permanent air or naval battlegroups awaiting deployment, they said. Instead, dispersed air and naval forces would be ready to assemble at a moment’s notice, though the coordination tools to enable that have yet to be developed.
How the 27 EU nations might quickly pull together naval assets at sea to form a so-called maritime task group (MTG) to support a joint operation was demonstrated during a one-day naval exercise March 12 off the coast of this Belgian port. It was the first test-case for applying the battlegroup concept to a mixture of air and naval elements.
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