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Ian Jones: The actions to set up and organize the linguistic support of NATO HQs described in the chapters above were largely taken without reference to explicitly-stated rules or official guidance. Allied Command Europe (later Allied Command Operations) had a Directive on Linguistic Services that laid down how those services were to be provided in the peacetime structure. Shortly after arriving at SHAPE in 1989, I revised the version I had inherited from my predecessors, bringing it into line with professional standards. I updated it twice more, in 2006 and in 2011. In the 2006 revision, I added a short chapter governing linguistic services in the PSO headquarters, based on my own experiences. It was not until the 2011 version, issued in October of that year, and which contained a much expanded chapter on those HQs, that I was able to base the text on a new NATO doctrine ‘ALingP-1 — Linguistic Support for Operations’, that had been promulgated the previous month.1 The ACO Directive however only applied to the part of the NATO command structure under the authority of SACEUR. It did not apply to the nations contributing forces to NATO-led operations.
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Jones, I.P., Askew, L. (2014). NATO Doctrine. In: Meeting the Language Challenges of NATO Operations. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312563_11
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