Jefferson Institute

Military training is essential to sustain the fight 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 at war, not just preparing for it.

Nations must build systems that "train while we fight," with wartime resilience and backups among allies and partners.

https://connections-qj.org/article/sustaining-resilient-military-training-multi-domain-era-challenges-and-opportunities

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes

Artificial Intelligence offers an opportunity to greatly enhance the quality, scalability, and insights of military Education, Training, Exercises, and Evaluation (ETEE). A new information paper by the Partnership for Peace Consortium’s Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Working Group provides military education and training leaders with an overview of how AI can support the full ETEE lifecycle:

• Pitfalls to avoid when utilizing AI for ETEE
• Benefits of incorporating AI into ETEE
• Action recommendations for advancing AI adoption in ETEE

This paper is part of the PfPC ADL Working Group’s “ETEE Emerging Capabilities Quick-Looks” series. It grew from discussion at a September 2023 conference co-sponsored by the PfPC ADL WG and the NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine (MILMED COE) in Budapest, Hungary.

You can download the paper here: https://www.pfp-consortium.org/media/489/download

The increasingly important role of eLearning in military education and training was a key topic at this week’s Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) conference “Russia’s War Against Ukraine.” Jefferson Institute President Aaron Presnall participated in the conference in his capacity as the co-chair of the PfPC Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Working Group.

The first day of the conference focused on lessons learned from the war and how distance learning has emerged as a critical element of Ukraine’s development of a more resilient and agile approach to training and educating their forces while they fight.

On the conference’s second day, discussion focused on the war’s impact in the Black Sea and the Western Balkans—and its potential implications for geopolitical developments in the Indo-Pacific—including the need for modern multinational training and education systems capable of responding to emerging geopolitical realities.

The conference was hosted by the George C. Marshall Center ( ) on December 12-15 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Keynote speakers included Bulgaria Minister of Defense Todor Tagarev, Ukraine Military Representative to NATO Maj. Gen. Serhii Salkutsan, and former NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Madeleine Moon.