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How do bomb disposal experts improve their skills? By attending training exercises such as Northern Challenge organized each year by Icelandic Coast Guard. Exercise Northern Challenge is an Iceland-hosted multinational counter-improvised explosive device exercise in which participants share military tactics, techniques, and procedures in order to achieve greater interoperability when conducting combined peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, or when countering global or regional threats to maritime security. This year, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States took part. Footage includes shots of bomb disposal experts using various techniques to counter improvised explosive devices.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers a speech at Harvard University in Boston.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg answers audience questions during his speech at Harvard University in Boston.

NATO and partner nation Jordan are united in the fight against terrorism, but how has Jordan remained stable, despite ISIS being present in bordering countries?

In a region where many of its neighbors, especially Iraq and Syria, are in crisis, Jordan has managed to remain relatively stable. A key geopolitical partner in the fight against ISIS, the country has used effective governance and the will of the people to resist fundamentalism. But after a recent spate of security breeches, can Jordan truly maintain its status as a beacon of stability in a crisis region?

Footage includes - various shots of markets in Amman, the Friday call to prayer, GVs of Amman.

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Hi-tech and low-tech non-lethal weapons give troops options to warn or stop civilians who may or may not pose threats at vehicle checkpoints and perimeter security areas. Troops from five nations (Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States) tested non-lethal weapons in scenarios mimicking real-world perimeter security and vehicle checkpoint situations. This exercise, called “NNTEX 16 L” for “NATO Non-Lethal Technological Exercise Land, 2016” took place during September and October 2016 in Camp Elsenborn Lager, in Belgium. This is the second exercise of its kind (the first being a maritime-based exercise), and it involves various non-lethal weapons and devices being put through the paces by operators. It is supported by NATO’s Defense against Terrorism Program of Work (DAT POW). Footage includes interviews with non-lethal technology experts and soldiers. This version includes graphics, but no subtitles.

This Joint and Coalition ops video illustrates how the Joint Staff J6 Joint Deployable Analysis Team (JDAT) helps warfighters enhance integration and interoperability across a broad spectrum of mission areas to ultimately improve combat effectiveness and reduce the potential of fratricide and collateral damage.

Warfighter assistance is focused within the following areas: Command and Control; Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS); Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD); Air-to-Ground Operations; and Cyberspace Ops

JDAT serves a wide-range of warfighters including: Combatant Commands, Service Operational Test Activities (OTAs), DOT&E, Service & Coalition Program Managers, and Service-specific Battle Labs and Centers of Excellences

An international team of scientists working on the multi-year research project ‘Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat’ (MODUM), supported by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme have been mapping the ocean floor, locating and monitoring munition dump sites in the Baltic Sea. The variety of chemical weapons and explosives left over from the Second World War is thought to pose a significant threat to marine life in the region.

Footage includes interviews with key scientists and mission personnel, archive material of the underwater dump sites and operations on board a Polish research vessel.

NATO’s air surveillance planes, known as AWACS, have begun flying missions to counter ISIL. The AWACS aircraft will only fly in international airspace or over Turkey, providing support for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL with air surveillance and situational awareness. The aircraft will not coordinate coalition air strikes or provide command and control for fighter aircraft. NATO AWACS support for the coalition is part of NATO’s broader fight against terrorism. This contribution does not make NATO a member of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. NATO AWACS stands for NATO Airborne Warning and Control System.

This footage includes shots of an AWACS aircraft taking off from and landing at Konya Airport in Turkey plus shots of the crew onboard.

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At a hidden biological, nuclear and chemical warfare training facility deep in the Czech countryside, a team of specialists from Jordan undergo specialized training in detection and disposal using live chemical warfare agents.

On 11 November every year, Latvians light thousands of candles to commemorate the soldiers who fell for the country's independence during the First World War. Latvia was proclaimed the Independent Republic of Latvia on 18 November 1918 but for a year a war was waged with the West Russian Volunteer Army, a force that was also made up of German volunteers. Latvia claimed final victory on 11 November 1919. This version includes graphics and subtitles.