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Cyber Defense Partnerships Lead to Lasting Relationships
“PERSHENDETJE NGA SHQIPERIA”,
“GREETINGS FROM ALBANIA"
In late March, I made my first visit to the charming and friendly city of Tirana, Albania. A highlight of my trip was meeting with senior leadership from EUCOM and the Albanian Ministry of Defense and Chief of Defense to discuss opportunities to preserving partnership capacity in cyber defense by strengthening collective International cyber security postures and cooperation. The meeting emphasized the nation’s cyber program -- the importance of Albania’s cyber defense capability to protect and defend its information systems and infrastructure to obtain funding and resources to support their military.
Meetings with Col. Chesk Millja, Albania J6, and his staff provided us with an opportunity to map out our future military-to-military cyber engagements between Albania, EUCOM, and the New Jersey National Guard through the State Partnership Program. The EUCOM International Cyber Engagement team leverages and integrates the capabilities of the SPP to augment and support their programs.
Increasing our partners’ cyber defense postures to protect and defend against threats and vulnerabilities which disrupt free use of the global information grid is a top priority here at EUCOM where we are committed to building enduring cyber defense partnerships with Albania and other NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. We are working to strengthen our collective cyber defense and improving deployment readiness with interoperable and secure command, control, communications and computer systems that make us more ready to meet the global challenge of securing cyberspace in a multinational forum and participate as equal partners in a coalition cyber environment.
Albania is committed to this cyber partnership and plans to host a Cyber Endeavor Seminar in spring 2013. Cyber Endeavor is EUCOM’s cyber defense collaboration and familiarization venue designed to strengthen partner nation cyber defense capacity through seminars, events, and exercise support.
We look forward to strengthening and sustaining our cyber partnership with Albania.
For further information on cyber military issues, contact the International Cyber Engagement (ICE) team at ICE@eucom.mil.
Stephanie A. Dantzler
International Cyber Engagement Chief
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To Communicate “Thank you”
In the future we expect to do more regional projects for Albania and the Balkans by investing in Disaster Preparedness and Telemedicine, but I’m sure the occasional school renovations will remain on our schedule. There really is no better grass roots opportunity for us to reach out and impact the next generation.
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First day of school excitement in Albania!
Have you been to the beautiful mountainsides of Northern Albania? It was my first time to this land called Shqipëria, and as it is known by its inhabitants the "Land of the Mountain Eagle," hence the two-headed eagle on their uniquely distinguished national flag.
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Albania looks to EUCOM for chaplaincy advice
I spent the week of June 7-11 in Tirana, Albania, hosted by the US Defense Attaché and Office of Defense Cooperation. They invited me to help assess the need for the Albanians to establish a military chaplaincy as they anticipate the possibility of casualties from their combat mission in Afghanistan. Currently, their law prohibits religious expression in the military even though its permitted by law in the civilian population since 1991.
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Generation to Generation: A story from Albania
We traveled to Albania Sept. 14, 2009 to witness the grand opening of the newly renovated Kucove (Ku-cho-va) Elementary School. Along with the U.S. European Command’s Office of Defense Cooperation and U.S. Charge d’Affairs, we made our way to Kucove and after a 2 ½ hour drive arrived to the sight of 200 young students waving U.S. and Albanian flags in the yard of their newly renovated school. As we toured the grounds and met our Albanian hosts we immediately became aware of the deep admiration Albanians feel for the United States. More than admiration- to use their words- “love” for the United States and all Americans.
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What is the South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG)?
Here at Combined Endeavor 09, we have participating organizations in addition to country participants. One of the organizations -- NATO -- is familiar to many people. SEEBRIG, however, is not as well known, so I want to take a few minutes to tell you about it.
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