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MPAT Tempest Express Exercises & MNF SOP Workshops
Duration: 1 week

The Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) is a rapidly maturing multinational program that was established in November 2000 by the Commander of U.S. Pacific Command and the Chiefs of Defense of various nations in the Asia-Pacific region.  The program aims to facilitate the establishment and/or augmentation of multinational coalition or combined task force headquarters (CTF HQ).  The MPAT Secretariat resides with the Pacific Command Training and Exercises Directorate (J7).

The MPAT Program has helped develop an international cadre of military planners from nations with interests in the Asia-Pacific region.  Participation increased from five nations in 2000 to 33 nations in 2005.  The operational objectives of the MPAT program are:

• Increased speed of initial crisis response by multinational forces in the Asia-Pacific region

• Improved multinational interoperability

• Improved overall multinational mission effectiveness

• Unity of effort

Members are capable of augmenting a multinational force headquarters that would be established to plan and execute multinational force operations in response to military operations other than war and small scale contingencies.  Planners share and learn common procedures for activating, forming, and employing a multinational force headquarters and associated planning processes through MPAT TEMPEST EXPRESS Staff Planning Workshops. 

The MPAT Program developed and uses a Multinational Force Standing Operating Procedures (MNF SOP) .

COE supports the MPAT program by providing subject matter expertise in broad areas addressing military support to civilian-led humanitarian operations.  COE provides a civilian humanitarian perspective in drafting the MNF SOP; drafting realistic exercise scenarios addressing humanitarian crises; in facilitating the retention of civilian humanitarian actors from the United Nations, International and Non-Governmental Organizations; in organizing representatives from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to act as subject matter experts; and in role playing during exercises.

Taken in part from the 25 June 2008 MPAT Information Paper prepared by Mr. Scott A. Weidie, USPACOM J722, 477-8267.

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