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62 THREATS AND CHALLENGES DERIVING FROM POTENTIAL ADVERSARIES professional fighters who form the basis for a much wider reserve base; • Limited training beyond basic firearms techniques; limited to nonexistent tactical awareness for most members, although higher echelons and professional cadres will have some comprehension; • Equipment usually limited to small arms, anti-tank and occasionally limited number of anti-aircraft missiles and ammunitions; • Budget is limited to the above mentioned purchases, with limited resources available for large platform procurement; • Likely to remain focused on maintaining stocks of missiles, unguided artillery rockets and anti-tank guided weapons; • May train a greater number of operatives to use relatively complex weapon systems, this process will have been undertaken with the support of sponsoring states or organisations. Specifically, such adversaries may develop capabilities, for example: EU NAVFOR Atalanta prevents hijacking - 4 March 2009 © German Navy • Will increase stocks of man-portable ATGWs. These may include, for example the Metis-M (At-13) system with its thermobaric warhead, the Konkurs (AT-5) and Kornet (AT-IX-14) anti-armour missile systems; • Adversaries are likely to have made the first moves into establishing some C4 capability, improving command and control systems and procedures that allow for greater ease in conducting coordinated operations. Data sharing between units and positions can be expected to resemble the rudimentary elements of C4I, probably utilising primarily commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems and equipment; • There may be a drive to enhance defensive and intelligence gathering via a process of acquiring Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) and Electronic Counter-Counter Measures (ECCM) equipment; • They will establish and maintain encryption in the practical methods of data gathering and input into the network (such as forward observation of artillery fire, radio and sensor operation, etc); • Adversaries will continue to pioneer many of the methods of Improvised Explosive Device and will seek to obtain the materials and equipment required for the creation of IEDs with Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) warheads; • They are likely to pursue the transfer of a substantial number of advanced air defence systems, such as Russian-made IGLA Man Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) and its follow-on replacement. Additionally, they are likely to acquire of these weapons in order to deter and prevent helicopter operations, interdict gunship and UAV strikes and to prevent the insertion of Special Forces; • Irregular forces are likely to be familiar with the use of UAV assets; • They are most likely to employ tactical doctrine that creates civil unrest so they are in a position of being the ‘only choice’ in authority. Disrupting civil population and the utilisation of civilian agitation will be a force multiplier for them when territory is taken by their enemy. • A burden will placed upon regular forces attempting to take and hold territory containing civilian supporters of irregular adversaries, requiring the combination of a military and civil command response. EU forces may even be placed on the streets for law enforcement which is likely to complicate rules of engagement and reduces the forward fighting power. FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
BACKGROUND NOTE ON EDA The European Defence Agency was established under a Joint Action of the Council of Ministers on 12 July, 2004, "to support the Member States and the Council in their effort to improve European defence capabilities in the field of crisis management and to sustain the European Security and Defence Policy as it stands now and develops in the future”. FUNCTIONS AND TASKS The European Defence Agency, within the overall mission set out in the Joint Action, is ascribed four functions, covering: - developing defence capabilities; - promoting Defence Research and Technology (R&T); - promoting armaments co-operation; - creating a competitive European Defence Equipment Market and strengthening the European Defence, Technological and Industrial Base. All these functions relate to improving Europe's defence performance, by promoting coherence. A more integrated approach to capability development will contribute to better-defined future requirements on which collaborations - in armaments or R&T or the operational domain - can be built. More collaboration will, in turn, provide opportunities for industrial restructuring and progress towards the continental-scale demand and market, which industry needs. On this basis, the Agency's tasks include: - to work for a more comprehensive and systematic approach to defining and meeting the capability needs of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP); - to promote European defence-relevant R&T, as vital both to a healthy defence technological and industrial base and to defining and satisfying future capability requirements. This will involve pursuing collaborative use of national defence R&T funds, in the context of a European Defence R&T Strategy which identifies priorities; - to promote European cooperation on defence equipment, both to contribute to defence capabilities and as a catalyst for further restructuring the European defence industry; - to work, in close cooperation with the Commission, on steps towards an internationally competitive market for defence equipment in Europe. The Agency's "comparative advantage" should be its ability to comprehend all these agendas, and relate them so as to realise their synergies. Its special position should allow it to develop uniquely cogent analyses and proposals across the range of its activities. FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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