{"id":86164,"date":"2017-11-09T11:21:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cee718a758cc2664fdac136451bfc190"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:21:32","slug":"news-story-dcdc-hosts-northern-group-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=86164","title":{"rendered":"News story: DCDC hosts Northern Group working group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Hosted by the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (<abbr title=\"Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre\">DCDC<\/abbr>), the event was attended by ten of the Northern Group member nations, including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>A think tank within the Northern Group, the Northern Group Centre for Conceptual Thinking (<abbr title=\"Northern Group Centre for Conceptual Thinking\">NGCCT<\/abbr>) provides a forum for collaborative discussion, idea exchange and mutual understanding of issues and opportunities. This event aimed to highlight security issues of interest to all <abbr title=\"Northern Group Centre for Conceptual Thinking\">NGCCT<\/abbr> members, such as the High North and Modern Deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the <abbr title=\"Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre\">DCDC<\/abbr> Futures team, the High North discussion examined the strategic significance of melting Arctic sea ice. Members then divided into syndicates, to present national perspectives on potential scenarios arising from this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>To provide a context for discussion of the common challenges associated with deterrence in 21st century Europe, the <abbr title=\"Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre\">DCDC<\/abbr> Doctrine team introduced \u2018Joint Doctrine Note (JDN) 06, modern deterrence: the military contribution\u2019, currently being drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Further <abbr title=\"Northern Group Centre for Conceptual Thinking\">NGCCT<\/abbr> events, hosted by other Northern Group member states, are being planned for 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first meeting of the Northern Group Centre for Conceptual Thinking took place at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}