Jane's emails that all is not well with NRF:
The NATO Response Force (NRF) is in trouble and needs fixing fast, say NATO officials, diplomats and policy experts. They argue that, while many of its force-generation problems stem from operational pressures on the allies in Afghanistan and elsewhere, its development has also been retarded by restrictions on how the alliance's common funding can be spent and by NATO's increasingly politicised Military Committee (MC) of national chiefs of defence, which hobbles the NRF's missions. "Here is a force that should be on steroids, but is on life-support," Hans Binnendijk, vice-president for research at the Washington, DC-based National Defense University (NDU), told a 3 March policy debate hosted there by the US's German Marshall Fund[.]
A NATO-wide force composed of units from countries with real combat units mixed in with units from countries that have uniformly dressed civil servants tends to lower the abilities of the real units instead of bolstering the faux units.
An entire wealthy continent can't put together a joint deployable combat force of what? Some 20,000+ troops?
NATO's Military Committee is the least of their problems.
