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Capital: Podgorica
Area: 13,812
Comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut
Population (July 2011 estimate): 661,807
Official language(s): Montenegrin, though Serbian is used more
State Partner: Maine
International Organizations and Agreements: NATO’s Partnership for Peace, United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Council of Europe, Adriatic Charter

Since gaining independence in 2006, Montenegro has rapidly integrated itself into the world community and taken steps to advance its membership in both NATO and the European Union. Montenegro has been a participant in the NATO Membership Action Plan since 2009 and achieved European Union candidate status in 2010.

The overriding goal of U.S. assistance to Montenegro is to assist the country's transition to a prosperous, market-based democracy fully integrated into Euro-Atlantic institutions, including NATO and the European Union. The United States supports these efforts by helping Montenegro ensure stability through broad-based prosperity, building an effective security partnership, strengthening the rule of law, and reinforcing democratic institutions.

The Montenegrin military has established a partnership with the Maine Army National Guard, and efforts are underway to broaden this relationship to include cooperation in the civilian sector. Montenegro began deploying troops NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in March 2010, and also provides a contribution to the EU anti-piracy mission ATALANTA. Montenegro participates in various exercises with the U.S. military including Medical Exercise Central and Eastern Europe, Combined Endeavor and Immediate Response. 

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  • March 13, 2012

    First-Ever Regional Cyber Endeavor Seminar Held in Montenegro

    I spent last week in the warm and hospitable city of Podgorica, Montenegro, with a EUCOM team executing the first-ever regional Cyber Endeavor event.
  • March 2, 2012

    LOGEX 13: workshop in wintery Montenegro

    For this, the second of five scheduled LOGEX workshops, we drove to a training center in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, to meet with 17 Montenegro military personnel and observers from Armenia, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Serbia.
  • June 29, 2011

    The clock is winding down to the start of Cyber Endeavor 2011

    In my previous blog, I told you what Cyber Endeavor was all about. In this post, I’ll go over where we are at with CyE, who is providing seminars at the event, and the topics those seminars are going to cover. At this latest planning conference, we spent our time finalizing the schedule and agenda, as well as recruiting more participants from all of the nations in attendance. The conference was a success and we are on target to have an even better CyE than last year.
  • February 16, 2011

    Cyber Defense is a Team Sport

    The theme of this conference was “Empowering a Cyber Defense Workforce" and included over one hundred participants with 40 partner cyber defenders from 18 countries, NATO, and other international organizations. The cheer squad came from USEUCOM's components, DoD agencies and industry.
  • December 13, 2010

    A Greater Peace of Mind

    Have you wondered who would respond in the event of a life-threatening medical situation? Would that worry influence where you lived and worked or would it be a factor in your decision to visit an area?
  • September 25, 2009

    Balkan Dreams

    As I fly back from a three day visit of the region, I certainly had ample opportunity to see firsthand all that he describes; yet today, there seems to me to be real hope in the region for cooperation and security alignment, perhaps for the first time in the more than two millenniums of recorded history.
  • April 27, 2009

    Combined Endeavor 2009

    CE – Combined Endeavor – is a large telecommunications exercise sponsored by EUCOM but planned and executed by our partner nations. This year, 2009, we are moving the exercise out of Germany for the first time in our 14 year history to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a big enough challenge planning this exercise, but this year we add the challenge of building a new infrastructure to support the exercise.

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  • June 8, 2012

    Immediate Response 2012: So Pharr, So Good

    Pvt. Jacob Pharr with the with the 1st Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment distinguishes himself during training at Immediate Response 2012. Immediate Response 12 is a multinational tactical field exercise that involves more than 700 personnel from the U.S. Army Europe's 2nd Cavalry Regiment and Croatian land forces, with elements from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia have brought observers.
  • June 8, 2012

    Immediate Response 2012: Slovenian Troops In A Fire Fight

    Pvt. Tonya Breznik of the Slovenian Armed Forces talks about the training going on during Immediate Response 2012 and how it relates to here experience serving in Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force there. Immediate Response 12 is a multinational tactical field exercise that involves more than 700 personnel from the U.S. Army Europe's 2nd Cavalry Regiment and Croatian land forces, with elements from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia have brought observers.
  • February 23, 2012

    Humanitarian Assistance/ Disaster Relief in Montenegro

    Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's 12th Combat Aviation Brigade conduct a resupply mission to deliver goods to Montenegrins stranded by severe weather in Northern Montenegro Feb. 22. The Soldiers are here as part of a U.S. task force to provide humanitarian assistance at request of the government of Montenegro coordinating with the National Emergency Operations Center and the Montenegrin Ministry of Defense to provide relief and to save lives, homes and infrastructure in response to heavy snowfall.
  • September 13, 2010

    MEDCEUR opening ceremony

    Servicemembers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine and the United States stand in formation together at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro, Sept. 10. The ten nations have gathered to work together during MEDCEUR 10, a medical training exercise in central and eastern Europe. This exercise will provide training that will give these servicemembers a strengthened emergency and medical response in the event of any real-world disasters or accidents. For more information, visit www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me.
  • September 10, 2010

    Community Day helps relationships grow

    U.S. servicemembers and Montenegrin armed forces members kicked off Medical Central and Eastern Europe Exercise 2010 today by planting trees and paying a nearby river some extra attention. More than 100 servicemembers from U.S. Air Forces in Europe, U.S. Army Europe and Marine Forces Reserve arrived Sept. 7 in Podgorica, Montenegro to participate in this tenth annual Partnership for Peace Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored medical training exercise.