A CIMIC COURSE HAS STARTED INTO THE INTEROPERABILITY DEPARTMENT

Photos: Krasimir Todorov

A Civil-Military Cooperation Course for Multinational Operations is being held at the Interoperability department of Rakovski Defence and Staff College for the first time with students from Albania, Azarbeidzhan , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Georgia , Serbia and Croatia.

This course is a proof of the new tendency of increasing the number of foreign students from East Europe and the south Caucuses in the courses offered by the department. It is a sign of the growing trust into the Republic of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army in particular for the preparation of specialists for multinational operations.

The Interoperability department uses the experience of the NATO Centre for Improving the CIMIC in Budel, Holland . The course includes workshops using special software and contemporary simulation aids along with the traditional civil-military cooperation topics. The Globe Smart Commander, a special product developed by the US Army and its application, is a new topic for the course. The software is a part of an international research project carried out by the System Analysis and Prognosis section of the Defence Advanced Research Institute on the Bulgarian part and is being applied for the first time by the lecturers from the Interoperability department.

The target language of the course is English and it ends with the lessons learned from the Bulgarian practice and experience from participation in multinational operations.