{"id":23696,"date":"2012-08-10T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23696"},"modified":"2012-08-10T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:46:56","slug":"french-air-force-chief-candidate-nato-supreme-commander-23696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/french-air-force-chief-candidate-nato-supreme-commander-23696\/","title":{"rendered":"French air force chief candidate NATO supreme commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/General-Jean-Paul-Palomeros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23719\" title=\"General Jean-Paul Palomeros\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/General-Jean-Paul-Palomeros-e1344602747360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>French air force commander will take over NATO\u2019s US-based strategic command centre, it was announced on Monday. Air Force Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros was nominated for the post by French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande.<\/h1>\n<p>NATO said Monday that France\u2019s air force commander will take over the military alliance\u2019s strategic command based in the United States, which is in charge of maintaining NATO\u2019s military capabilities in an age of austerity and shrinking defense budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros will replace fellow Frenchman Gen. Stephane Abrial, who in 2009 became the first non-American officer to head a major command in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Palomeros, chief of staff of the French air force, was nominated by French President Francois Hollande, the statement said. The nomination was endorsed on Monday by the North Atlantic Council, the alliance\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Palomeros will be in charge of the Allied Transformation Command in Norfolk, Virginia, whose current focus is \u201csmart defense,\u201d a concept under which NATO\u2019s 28 member nations pool resources to increase cost-efficiency as military expenditures are declining in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>NATO\u2019s seven-month bombing campaign of Libya last year _ conducted primarily by European members \u2013 exposed serious shortages in their strategic transport, aerial surveillance, air refueling and unmanned drones, most of which had to be supplied by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>NATO hopes that member nations will put aside concerns over sovereignty and formally agree to create joint defense capabilities \u2013 a goal that has proven elusive in the organization\u2019s 63-year history.<\/p>\n<p>NATO\u2019s other strategic command \u2013 Allied Command Operations, which oversees all military operations, including the war in Afghanistan \u2013 is based in Mons, Belgium. It is headed by U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who was scheduled to leave this summer but has been asked to extend his tour until at least the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French air force commander will take over NATO\u2019s US-based strategic command centre, it was announced on Monday. Air Force Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros was nominated for the post by French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[31052,960,31049,31041,31046,23047,31044,31045,23412,31048,31047,31053,31042,31050,31043,31051],"class_list":["post-23696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-allied-command-operations","tag-france","tag-france-gen-jean-paul-palomeros","tag-france-nato","tag-frances-air-force-commander","tag-francois-hollande","tag-french-air-force-chief","tag-french-air-force-chief-candidate-nato-supreme-commander","tag-french-president-francois-hollande","tag-gen-jean-paul-palomeros","tag-gen-jean-paul-palomeros-nato","tag-nato-allied-command-operations","tag-nato-france","tag-nato-gen-jean-paul-palomeros","tag-nato-supreme-commander","tag-united-states-france-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}