The Chicago shuffle is a jazz beat which requires a drummer to play both hands together at the same time at different beats. NATO leaders meeting in Chicago on 20-21 May 2012 will find themselves having to perform the political equivalent of the Chicago shuffle - finding a way to do more with less with no clear agreement over priorities.
Video of speech given by General Bartels, chairman of the NATO Military Committee at the CIOR Mid-Winter Meeting on February 9th 2012 in NATO Headquarters.
Dear All. I wish first of all to thank you for a very productive Mid Winter Meeting (MWM) last month in Bruxelles. We have, in my humble opinion, achieved quite a lot, but we can of course improve further. There is however a balance between the demand for quality and structure of our governance and output and the fact that most of our members do this during their free time, without any compensation and some even pay their own expenses for attending our gatherings.
Find the newsletter 1/2012 in the newsletter archive.
Several months have now passed since we said goodbye to more than 50 very engaged junior officers in Warsaw. In the meantime, the YRO (Young Reserve Officers) Committee has worked to identify lessons learned and to improve the concept of YROW in order to deliver an even better product in Copenhagen in 2012.
For the Mid-Winter Meeting (MWM) 2012 in Brussels, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR), Admiral James Stavridis (US), sent a video message to the CIOR community.
“Reservists match perfect as they bring in the combined knowledge of the business and military world. Thus reservists are decisive.” With this statement General Knud Bartels, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, emphasized the important role of reservist to the armed forces and welcomed the around 200 delegates of the CIOR at their Mid Winter Meeting.
The 65th CIOR Congress and the 66th CIOMR Congress will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 30 July to 4 August 2012.
From October 26th to October 30th 2011, the PfP & O Committee held its yearly workshop. The 48 workshop participants enjoyed the hospitality of the Albanian Armed Forces as this year’s PfP & O workshop took place in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
CIOMR gladly accepts the invitation of CIOR to contribute to the “CIOR Newsletter” and looks at it as being a rather logical consequence of us being “brothers in arms”.
The 23rd annual CIOR Winter Seminar will be held at the conference center of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Schloss Eichholz, Wesseling, near Bonn, Germany, from 5 to 8 of February 2012, and will also this year be about the NATO's Strategic Concept, with focus of Promoting international security through cooperation.