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Allied Joint Force Command Naples

The Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) is a NATO military command based in Lago Patria, in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy. It was activated on 15 March 2004, after effectively redesigning its predecessor command, Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH), originally formed in 1951.[1] In NATO Military Command Structure terms, AFSOUTH was a "Major Subordinate Command".[2] The commander of JFC Naples reports to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Casteau, Belgium.[3]

Allied Joint Force Command Naples

15 March 2004

Operational level command

Planning and conducting military operations

Allied Command Operations

Lago Patria, Naples, Italy

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Admiral Stuart B. Munsch (US Navy)

Lieutenant-General Steven R. Kelsey (Canadian Army)

Lieutenant-General Vasco Angelotti (Italian Army)

As of 2008, Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples, was responsible for conducting the full range of military operations throughout the NATO Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond to deter aggression and to contribute to the effective defence of NATO territory and forces, safeguard freedom of the seas and economic lifelines and to preserve or restore the security of NATO nations.[4]

"Italic Weld" — a combined air-naval-ground exercise in involving the United States, Italy, Turkey, and Greece[12]

northern Italy

"Weldfast" — a combined amphibious landing exercise in the Mediterranean Sea involving British, Greek, Italian, Turkish, and U.S. naval forces

[12]

Chourchoulis, Dionysios (2014). The Southern Flank of NATO, 1951–1959: Military Strategy or Political Stabilization. Lanham, MD: . ISBN 978-0-73919-305-1.

Lexington Books

Chourchoulis, Dionysios (2012). . Cold War History. 12 (4): 637–657. doi:10.1080/14682745.2012.671297. S2CID 153376367.

"A nominal defence? NATO threat perception and responses in the Balkan area, 1951–1967"

Iatrides, John O. (2008). "Failed Rampart: NATO's Balkan Front". In Heiss, Mary Ann; Papacosma, S. Victor (eds.). NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.  978-1-61277-603-3.

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