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The future Army Staff will have three divisions:
across the civilian and military defence structures.
- a General Affairs Division
- a Resources Division
- an Employment Division
The Resources and Employment Divisions will be
merged with the corresponding structures in the
Diekirch Military Centre, optimizing personnel and
the decision-making mechanisms within the Army.
The General Affairs Division – with its more strategic dimension and in particular responsibility
for defence planning, the Army’s international
relations and the controlling function – will be
collocated with the Defence Directorate for the
purpose of enhancing synergies and cohesion.
This collocation will group together civilian and
military planning entities and bolster the strategic
planning capability. This answers a requirement
for functionally integrated processes suitable for
managing simultaneously the policy and military
aspects of crises, including at the planning level.
The new structure will thus allow more integrated decision support processes to be implemented
The new Army structure provides for a transition
from a pure land Army towards a force that can
gradually take on joint force functions to manage
capabilities – air and aerospace in particular –
likely to develop with the implementation of these
Guidelines.
• The strategic management of the defence effort will
be in the hands of a Steering Committee chaired by
the Minister of Defence and including representatives
of the Defence Directorate and the Luxembourg Army.
e. Legislative and regulatory framework
Lastly, if the evolution of the Luxembourg Defence organization and the army is to have concrete effects, changes to the
legislative and regulatory framework governing defence policy must be brought about. Legislation and regulations will
be introduced through legislative channels within the term of
the current Government, particularly in the following areas:
• the law governing military organization;
• the law governing the Military Equipment Fund;
• the law governing participation in external military operations and civilian missions;
• the Grand Ducal regulations governing the organization of the army.
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