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14Appendix 1: Defence Diplomacy Activities• Bilateral and multilateral contacts between senior military and civiliandefence officials.• Appointment of defence attaches to foreign countries.• Bilateral defence cooperation agreements.• Training of foreign military and civilians personnel.• Provision of expertise and advise on the democratic control of armedforces, defence management and military technical areas.• Contacts and exchanges between military personnel and units, and shipvisits• Placements of military or civilian personnel in partner countries’ defenceministries or armed forces.• Deployments of training teams.• Provision of military equipment and other material aid.• Bilateral or multilateral military exercises for training purposes.Source: Cottey, Andrew, Anthony Forster, Reshaping Defence Diplomacy: NewRoles for Military Cooperation and Assistance, Adelphi Series, Vol. 44, No. 365,2004, p. 7.
15Appendix 2: US military cooperation and assistance programmes• International Military Education and Training (IMET): the primaryprogramme supporting the training of foreign military personnel (and alimited number of civilians) at US military training and educationinstitutions; also provides US military training and education in othercountries.• Expanded IMET (E-IMET): a sub-programme of IMET, mandated by theUS Congress in 1991, which focuses on non-combat and non-technicaltraining in areas such as defence management, civil-military relations andmilitary justice; approximately 30% of IMET-funded courses fall into theE-IMET category.• Foreign Military Interaction (FMI): a programme supporting a wide rangeof military-to-military contacts with other states.• Foreign Military Financing (FMF): grants and loans to help other states tobuy US military equipment, defence services and training; primarilysupports arms transfers to other states, but also supports training and otheractivities.• Joint Combine Exchange Training Programme (JCET): a programmeallowing US special forces to train with or provide training to foreignmilitary overseas.• Foreign Military Sales (FMS): the main programme for government-togovernmentsales of weapons to other states; the Department of Defenceserves as an intermediary and often provides maintenance and training.• Emergency drawdown and Excess Defence Articles (EDA): programmesallowing the US government to transfer weapons and training to otherstates in emergency circumstances or to dispose of surplus militaryequipment• Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC) Initiative: aninitiative designed to enhance the ability of other states to contribute tointernational peacekeeping missions.Source: Cottey, Andrew, Anthony Forster, Reshaping Defence Diplomacy: NewRoles for Military Cooperation and Assistance, Adelphi Series, Vol. 44, No. 365,2004, p. 10.
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