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Exercise STEADFAST DAGGER 2024 Underway at Joint Warfare Centre

November 26, 2024

STAVANGER, Norway – NATO’s premier crisis prevention and management exercise STEADFAST DAGGER 2024 is underway.

Scheduled by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, coordinated by Allied Joint Force Command Naples and directed by the Joint Warfare Centre, this computer-assisted command post exercise is designed to increase operational readiness and interoperability of the Allied Reaction Force, following its activation in July.

STEADFAST DAGGER 2024 is the first in a series of multi-domain training exercises focusing on crisis prevention and management, which is one of the three core tasks of NATO as set forth in the 2022 Strategic Concept.

STEADFAST DAGGER 2024 is designed to train the Allied Reaction Force 25 in planning and executing non-Article 5 multi-domain operations outside NATO territory to combat hybrid security threats.

It underscores the Allied Reaction Force’s capability of responding to crises worldwide, strengthening NATO’s 360-degree approach to deterrence and defence.

Altogether, these exercises demonstrate the Joint Warfare Centre’s commitment to NATO’s ongoing adaptation to a multi-domain-capable Alliance

– Major General von Butler, Joint Warfare Centre Commander

The primary training audiences of Exercise STEADFAST DAGGER 2024 include the Italian “Vittorio Veneto” Division (Land Component Command), the Spanish Maritime Component Command, the Turkish Joint Force Air Component Command and the Spanish Joint Special Operations Command.

During the exercise, participants will engage in interdiction operations, small joint combat operations and countering terrorism.

Major General Ruprecht von Butler, Joint Warfare Centre’s Commander and the Exercise Director, underlined the Centre’s crucial role in building multi-domain awareness across the Alliance through the Centre’s new series of STEADFAST exercises, which kicked off in 2024: STEADFAST DETERRENCE, STEADFAST DUEL and STEADFAST DAGGER.

“Altogether, these exercises demonstrate the Joint Warfare Centre’s commitment to NATO’s ongoing adaptation to a multi-domain-capable Alliance,” Major General von Butler said.