- increase the degree of force mobility and force protection;
- develop and integrate the tactical, operational, and strategic command, control,
communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) system,
and interconnect them with NSS and NATO specific ones;
- implement the system of recruitment, training, and use of voluntary reserve;
- plan, organize, and carry out the preparation of the population, territory, and national
economy through mobilization exercises to increase resilience and to cope with any security
crisis.
The Transformation system presented in the above-mentioned guidelines will be
implemented through specific plans to achieve the established objectives.
CHAPTER 4 - DEFENSE CAPABILITIES AND PRIORITIES IN ACHIEVING THEM
In order to carry out missions and achieve the military level of ambition, the Romanian
Armed Forces must develop and possess credible and sustainable capabilities, defined through
the defense planning process in the following areas: command, control and communication,
intelligence, engagement, force projection, force protection, and sustenance.
The development of Romanian Armed Forces capabilities is achieved in the following
priority order:
- structures on a permanent combat-ready status; designed for surveillance and early warning;
combat service support; intervention at military facilities, in a terrorist crisis, and in emergency
situations;
- structures with immediate response capacity, assigned to combat actions on the national
territory through immediate response, dissuasion and show of force;
- forces assigned to the components of enhanced NATO’s Reaction Force and to the EU’s
Battle Groups;
- forces committed under the NATO Defense Planning Process through the Capability Targets,
through the EU Capability Development Plan, and through the UN Peacekeeping Capabilities
Readiness System;
- capabilities assigned to participate in the implementation of projects, programs, and initiatives
of development within a multinational NATO and EU framework;
- other structures which ensure an increased potential of engagement in military actions.
The establishment, development, and sustenance of capabilities are achieved taking into
account the specific requirement and actions in the following domains: doctrine, organization,
training, material, leadership, personnel, facility, and interoperability, as follows:
a) In the area of doctrine:
- develop/harmonize the legal framework for an interagency approach to national
security and defense;
- continue the process of acceptance and implementation of NATO standards throughout
the entire force structure;
- participate in the development of the concept of countering hybrid warfare;
- develop the legal framework to conduct/counter special operations in urban,
intelligence, psychological, and cybernetic environment;
- update training regulations in the Romanian Armed Forces to ensure a high level of
interoperability.
b) Regarding the organization of the force structure:
- transform the General Staff into the Defense Staff and render it operational;
- develop and improve the force structure to enable it to carry out the missions
established by national and/or NATO defense plans;
- design uniform organizational charts for same-type structures, headquarters, combat,
combat support, and combat service support units and formations, in accordance with the
requirements of the NATO Capability Code;
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