NATO Command Structure 2022

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[joebykaeby]

You know you’re witnessing history being made when historical educators start covering current event topics

[Ellyerre]

Small nitpick but France never left NATO, it left NATO Military Command Structure in 1966 to pursue its own independent nuclear deterrent forces and later rejoined in 2009. During that, in case of war, an attack on France was still an attack on NATO and vice-versa.

[ericmyrs]

Stoltenbergs term was extended, like today. He was supposed to take the job as head of the central Bank of Norway, but NATO is obviously more important.

[vrenak]

It's also worth to note that since the founding of NATO the US insisted on the supreme militry commander be an american, the price for that however is that the 2nd in command cannot be an american, and the US are not eligible for having the political leadership, (Stoltenbergs job).

[ichabodstrange]

5:58 There are actually seven geograpic commands because Space Command is counted as a geophraphic command. Reason beeing that space is an actual place you can physically go to. But thats a very minor nitpick.

[colinbarthel]

Matt, This was a great video. As someone whose degree is in International Relations with a focus on US Foreign Policy, even I wasn't up to speed on the recent reorganization. If you want/have the time, it might be interesting for your viewers to explore the history of why a European is always the Secretary General and the Supreme Allied Commander is always an American. Also, if you're interested in a new theme for videos, a series on historical alliances might be very fascinating. From the Delian and Athenian Leagues up through the many medieval alliances all the way up to NATO, I'm sure there are other historical formal alliance regimes that are lesser known. As always, thanks for the great content!

[martinstent]

We heard on the news yestarday evening that Jens Stoltenberg has agreed to extend his term for another year to Sept. 2023.

[smorcrux]

I was wondering exactly about this yesterday! Thank you so much for making this video, it was extremely helpful for me.

[jennaolbermann]

This is great! I’ve never been clear of the structure of NATO or where they are based. Very informative.

[poetkun]

moving from relationships between different people to structures within different organsations, hoping for more videos like this in the future

[dblair]

Things have REALLY changed a lot since I was assigned to NATO AFSOUTH (Allied Forces Southern Europe) Logistics Division in Agnano, Naples back in the early 1990s. Back then it was Desert Storm/Shield followed by the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Thanks for the post!

[dethmin]

Notice how none of the Icelandic officials are in military uninform. Iceland is the only Nato member with no military whatsoever.

[michaelrae]

Thank you for making videos on things I didn't know I wanted to know.

[azariahisrael]

I was stationed at SHAPE Mons, Belgium 1992 to 95. Interesting multinational duty. The allied commander is referred to as the SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). General Shalikashvilli was in charge in my days there.

[mathewtersago]

Your content and design skills are amazing. Thanks for creating these informative infographics and explaining them.

[navetal]

5:57 I believe this map is outdated, since in 2021 Israel was moved from EUCOM to CENTCOM. I can't tell any other mistakes, though, so it may just be a map from between 2008 (since AFRICOM is there) and 2020.

[cyana]

Wow, this was a lot of work! Thank you very much for the information.

[thomasdixon]

Different, but awesome to see how everything works and hope we can see similar things in future

Wish it was under better circumstances

[shwalkingmeme]

You fixed the spelling of Stoltenberg bc of my comment didn't you? 😁

Context: When Matt first uploaded the video, Stoltenberg was spelt with one T, "Stolenberg". There's other misspellings in the chart like "NATA member countries" instead of "NATO member countries" in the parts for Stoltenberg and Bauer, but he'll be fixing those for the final release of the chart (see below).

[genealogycentral]

Was this video uploaded earlier because I am sure I watched this earlier? Great Video