Multinational Planning Augmentation Team and Asia-Pacific Area Network (MPAT & APAN)

1. Multinational Planning Augmentation Team and Asia-Pacific Area Network (MPAT & APAN) in Asia and the Pacific CDR Scott A. Weidie, USN (Ret.) 20 February 2007

2. Agenda • What is MPAT? • Multinational Force Standing Operating Procedures (MNF SOP) • MPAT Events • Interoperability Efforts • Maritime Security Ops • Asia-Pacific Area Network • Way Ahead & End State

3. MPAT A cadre of military planners ... • From nations with Asia-Pacific interests • Capable of rapidly augmenting a multinational force (MNF) headquarters (HQ) • Established to plan and execute coalition operations • In response to military operations other than war (MOOTW) / small scale contingencies (SSC)

4. A Multinational Program • Multinational venue to share MNF CTF HQ procedures • Maintains a cadre of MNF planners: • skilled in common crisis action planning procedures • available to rapidly augment a CTF HQ during a crisis • Develops habitual relationships among MPAT cadre • Meets periodically to: • share information & develop CTF HQ procedures (MNF SOP) • practice CTF HQ activation, formation, & planning processes • Includes interested nations, International Organizations (IOs), Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), & United Nations (UN) agencies MPAT PROGRAM BELONGS TO ALL INTERESTED NATIONS

5. Objectives & Methods • Improve Speed of Multinational Crisis Response • Improve Multinational Force Interoperability • Increase CTF Mission Effectiveness • Unity of Effort • Strengthen & Practice Common Crisis Action Planning Procedures • Develop and become familiar with common Standing Operating Procedures (SOP) for MNF CTF HQ

6. MPAT Participants Australia Bangladesh Brunei Cambodia Canada East Timor France Fiji Germany India Indonesia Italy Japan Korea Madagascar Malaysia Maldives Mauritius Mongolia Nepal New Zealand Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Tonga Tuvalu UK US Vanuatu Vietnam (33 countries)

7. MNF SOP Purpose • Increase multinational force (MNF): • Speed of Initial Response • Interoperability • Overall Mission Effectiveness • Unity of Effort HQ Procedures for Multinational Force OPS

8. MNF SOP Parameters • Multinational Document: • Ownership by MPAT nations is critical • Foundation reference for multinational crisis response • Not prescriptive, binding or directive: • Serves as a “guide” (start point) for multinational operations • Based on “Lead-Nation” Concept (one nation in lead) • Living, unsigned, web-based document (refinement institutionalized) • Focus is Operational Level – Coalition / Combined Task Force (CTF): • Primary focus: Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) • Support full range of small scale contingencies (SSCs)

9. Nation 4 Nation 1 MPAT CADRE MPAT CADRE Multinational Nation 5 Nation 2 Core Planning Staff - Lead Nation MPAT CADRE MPAT CADRE Nation 3 Nation 6 Force HQ MPAT CADRE MPAT CADRE JTF HQ Organization MNF CTF HQ Augmentation Single Nation Concept Lead Nation Concept CTF HQ JTF Joint Task Core Planning Staff Force HQ

10. TRANSITION EXECUTE DEPLOY PLAN Improving Response CTF TRANSITION Effectiveness Reduce Time & Increase Effectiveness! EXECUTE DEPLOY PLAN ESTABLISH CTF Improvement - X days X days Y days Time Improved speed of response through effective multinational force activation, forming, and planning

11. MPAT Venues • MPAT SOP Development Workshop : • Develop MPAT Program Recommendations • Develop / Refine MNF SOP • MPAT TEMPEST EXPRESS (TE): • CTF HQ Staff Planning Workshop • Scenario-driven planning event • MPAT Participation in Other Events: • USPACOM Multinational Exercises • Seminars, Table-top Exercises, Wargames, etc. • Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) Support

12. MULTINATIONAL FORCE STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURES (MNF SOP) Version: 2.2 01 February 2007 Event Links Develop Procedures Test Procedures Validate Procedures

13. SOP Development • MNF SOP-1 MAR 02: Hawaii (17 Countries) • MNF SOP-2 JUN 02: Hawaii (18 Countries) • MNF SOP-3 FEB 03: Hawaii (18 Countries) • MNF SOP-4 JUN 03: Hawaii (21 Countries) • MNF SOP-5 JAN 04: Hawaii (21 Countries) • MNF SOP-6 JUN 04: Hawaii (23 Countries) • MNF SOP-7 JAN 05: Cancelled due to Tsunami Relief Ops • MNF SOP-7 AUG 05: Hawaii (18 Countries) • MNF SOP-8 JAN 06: Malaysia (21 Countries) • MNF SOP-9 NOV 06: Jakarta (20 Countries) • MNF SOP-10 JAN 07: Hawaii (Mini-Workshop) • MNF SOP-11 NOV 07: Manila (tentative)

14. MPAT TE Workshop Schedule • TE-1 Nov 00: Manila (19 Countries) • TE-2 Feb 01: Bangkok (19 Countries) • TE-3 Jan 02: Korea (25 Countries) • TE-4 Aug 02: Singapore (25 Countries) • TE-5 Aug 03: Mongolia (22 Countries) • TE-6 Mar 04: Australia (25 Countries) • TE-7 Aug 04: India (26 Countries) • TE-8 Jul 05: Hawaii (25 Countries) • TE-9 Mar 06: Thailand (29 Countries) • TE-10 Aug 06: Mongolia (25 Countries) • TE-11 Feb-Mar 07: Singapore (28 Countries) • TE-12 Jun 07: Indonesia • TE-13 Jul 07: Hawaii

15. Military Interoperability Efforts MIC Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK, US MPAT MIC + Asia-Pacific Nations Tactical Organizations ABCA, ASIC, AUSCANNZUKUS, CCEB, TTCP How Do We Coordinate, Cooperate, Synchronize Efforts?

16. Strategic Interoperability Efforts • Policy Documents • Deliberate Plans • Doctrine • Broad CONOPS “WHY” “WHAT” “HOW” ENDS WAYS MEANS • Operational Interoperability Efforts • STANAGs • Standing Operating Procedures • Tactical Interoperability Efforts • Tactics, Techniques & Procedures Interoperability IssuesCoordination / Cooperation MIC / MIWGs CD & E MPAT MN Tactical Forums Exercises/ Training

17. Workshops & Seminars Information-Sharing • Education & Training Learning • Exercises Knowing Broad Interoperability Concept Humanitarian Community Unified Action Military Civil Governmental How Do We Coordinate, Cooperate, Synchronize Efforts?

18. Maritime Security Imperative • Sea covers over 70% of the earth’s surface • Vital to trade and other commercial activity • 90% of the world’s population lives within 300 nautical miles of the coast • 80% of the world’s major cities and financial centers are within 100 nautical miles of coastal regions • Security of the seas is of increasing interest to almost every nation as nations become more interdependent as a result of globalization

19. Maritime Security Imperative • Maritime security has been a traditional mission pursued by many nations to: • protect sea lines of communication • support military operations • pursue other national interests • Close the potential “gap” that exists for threats to: • exploit the maritime environment • escape security measures in the land & aerospace environments

20. MNF SOPMaritime Security Annex • Provides general guidance & considerations for planning & execution of maritime security operations • Most maritime security efforts are non-military (i.e., involve maritime law enforcement organizations, as well as civil governmental, and other organizations) • Effective maritime security requires interagency cooperation & effective day-to-day actions

23. APAN Multinational Crisis Response Theater Security Cooperation

24. APAN • Asia-Pacific Area Network (APAN) = unclassified non .mil (non-dot-mil) World Wide Web portal: • Supports the USPACOM Theatre Security Cooperation Program (TSCP) • Multinational Force Planning Workshops • Multinational Exercises • Crisis/Contingency Response. • Collaboration link between governments, militaries and UN, international & nongovernmental organizations. • Integrates and centralizes information to increase multilateral planning effectiveness and interoperability.

25. APAN • Links disaster centers & data sources with civil-military operations centers enabling information collaboration and response during real-world events. • Hosts the Virtual Information Center (VIC) which provides situational awareness through timely and focused identification, retrieval, and integration and analysis of open source information.

26. MPAT/GPOI Exercises Response Senior Leadership Seminars Multi-Lateral Partnerships Civil-Military Ops NGO Networks Coalition Building HA/DR Response Multinational Forces SOP APAN PORTAL Stabilization Planning Social Networks Unity Effort Relationship Building Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) Subject Matter Experts Theater Security Personnel Augmentation Interoperability Crisis Action Planning Regional Analysis

27. MPAT/GPOI Exercises Response Philippines Thailand Cambodia Mongolia APAN PORTAL Bangladesh Fiji Sri Lanka Malaysia Indonesia

28. MPAT/GPOI Exercises Response APAN PORTAL RSOI USPACOM Khaan Quest Keen Edge / Yama Sakura MPAT COE Balikatan Cobra Gold APCSS UN OCHA Talisman Saber ICRC

29. MPAT/GPOI Exercises Response APAN PORTAL DEC 2004 Tsunami Stabilization Planning Senior Leadership Seminars Multi-Lateral Partnerships Multi-National Forces SOP Civil-Military Ops NGO Networks USPACOM Coalition Building Counter Ideological Support to Terrorism Collaboration Regional Analysis MPAT Theatre Security COE Social Networks Relationship Building Informal Networks APCSS HA/DR Response • 11,683 average daily hits • 6,927 visitor sessions • 36 countries • 1.05 GB documents/imagery • 450 registered users • Over 60 VIC Products: Primer, Special and Daily Press Summaries Procedures UN OCHA Subject Matter Experts MNF SOP ICRC

30. MPAT TEMPEST EXPRESS Workshops TE-1 TE-2 TE-3 TE-4 TE-5 TE-6 TE-7 TE-8 TE-9 TE-10 Philippines Thailand Korea Singapore Mongolia Australia India Hawaii Thailand Mongolia 19 nations 19 nations 25 nations 25 nations 22 nations 25 nations 26 Nations 25 Nations 29 Nations 25 Nations “Completed Successfully” MNF SOP Workshops #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 MNF SOPMNF SOP Collaboration WebsiteMNFSOP Expansion Development& Refinement “Moving Forward” 1st Working Version 2.2 MNF SOP Draft GPOI Program Events MPAT & APAN Way Ahead APAN-enabled Multinational Training, Exercises and Collaboration • Future TEs: • Singapore (Feb-Mar 07) • Jakarta (Jun 07) Expand Partnerships & Multinational Readiness Initial Concept Development Multinational Cooperation & Interoperability

31. MPAT: www.mnfsop.com APAN: www1.apan-info.net Or send email to: mpat@mpat.org