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On 25 January, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), General Sir Tim Radford KCB DSO OBE, visited the NATO Defense College for the first time since assuming his duties in April 2020. He was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Laurent Hurez and Captain Hattie Arkwright.

The presentations of Senior Course (SC) 141’s Committee Study Projects (CSPs) took place on 19 and 20 January.

From 16 to 18 January, the NATO Defense College (NDC) hosted the annual Field Studies Planning Conference.

On 13 January, the NATO Defense College Research Division and Academic Operations Division co-hosted Dr. Johan Österberg, Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University, and Dr. Tibor Szvircsev Tresch, Head of Military Sociology at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, for a joint presentation of their recent research on military conscription in Europe.

On Tuesday 20 December, the newly appointed Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Mr Miguel Angel Fernandez Palacios – whose former assignment, from 2018 to 2022, was as Spain’s Permanent Representative to NATO, and is a graduate from the NDC Generals, Flag Officers and Ambassadors’ Course– paid a courtesy visit to the NATO Defense College and its Commandant, Lieutenant-General Olivier Rittimann.

On Monday 19 December, the British Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, His Excellency, the Right Honourable Lord Edward Llewellyn, OBE, visited the NATO Defense College (NDC), accompanied by the British Defence Attaché, Colonel Matt Smith (NDC Ancien of Senior Course 137), and Ms Julia Mariotti, Defence Relations Officer at the British Embassy, in Rome.

Final stop of Field Study 3 for Course Members of Senior Course 141: Croatia

• NDC Research Paper 27: Nuclear Strategy in the 21st Century: Continuity or Change?, edited by Andrea Gilli and Pierre de Dreuzy

• NDC Policy Brief 21-2022: NATO Allies’ geopolitical diversity and the cohesion of the Alliance, by Thierry Tardy *

Senior Course 141 continued its third Field Study with a visit to Montenegro on 13 December 2022.