ITEC 2012: General promotes ‘e-NATO’ concept
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) must embrace the ‘electronic’ or e-NATO concept in order to maximise education and training processes, a senior official has admitted.
Addressing delegates at ITEC in London, Lt Gen Karlheinz Viereck, NATO deputy chief of staff, joint force training at Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT) warned that the alliance must move away from ‘complicated’ training initiatives.
‘Put training in the worldwide web and you land exactly where you want,’ Viereck exclaimed while announcing his views of global education and training: ‘This will give us easy access to training so you don’t need to
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