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Northwood Headquarters
A look at the centre of British military interventions
Andreas Speck
Situated in the London suburb of Northwood, conveniently accessible for activists via the Metropolitan line, is the Northwood Headquarters, also known as HMS Warrior. From the outside it is not visible that Northwood Headquarters play a crucial role in the more and more interventionist military strategies of Britain or more generally NATO and the Western countries.
Northwood Headquarters is not just one headquarters it consists of
several headquarters with specific roles. At present they are:
- NATO Regional Command East Atlantic (RC EAST)
- NATO Component Command Naval Forces North (NAVNORTH)
- British Permanent Joint Forces Headquarters (PJHQ) (1)
The National Command of Fleets (CINCFLEET) was based at Northwood too, but moved to new headquarters at Whale Island, Portsmouth. Only a few staff remain at Northwood. (2)
Notes:
(1) http://www.eastlant.nato.int/Your_Community/your_community.htm
and http://www.eastland.nato.int/hq_info/structure.htm
(2) http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2002/0204/0002043001.htm
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