CIOR NEWS

(Updated.) The CIOR President Colonel Chris Argent (UK Army Retd) and CIOR Secretary General Colonel Adrian Walton (UK Army) visited Estonia in November to attend the 101st Anniversary of the formation of the Estonian Defense Forces, and to review the 2019 CIOR Summer...

Youth, sportsmanship and friendship were central elements to the recent visit by the president of CIOR, Colonel (R) Chris Argent and the secretary general, Colonel (R) Adrian Walton to the Republic of South Africa. In meetings with senior leaders of both the regular...

Brussels, 10 October 2019: The CIOR President, UK Colonel Chris Argent (Retd.) last Monday presented the CIOR Annual Report 2018- 19 to the NATO Military Committee (MC). The report – the first in four years – highlighted the breadth of work being undertaken by CIOR on...

Valuable CIOR networks: The US Vice President of CIOR, Brigadier General Michael J. Silva (R) recently attended the retirement ceremony for immediate past Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). Friday 31 May 2019: – General Curtis M. Scaparrotti was my last...

The presidencies of the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR) and it’s sister organization for medics (CIOMR) met in Florence, Italy 25-28 April. The meeting took place in connection with CIOMR’s spring meeting – known internally in the...

CIOR CIMEX 2017 Forging greater CIMIC Resilience in Prague The international Confédération Interalliée des Officiers de Réserve (CIOR), of which South Africa is a part, includes a Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Committee. This committee successfully executed its...

MILCOMP 2017 Many challenges awaited this year’s competitors in Prague, but have been mastered very successfully CIOR Military Competition Concurrent with the CIOR Summer Congress 2017 in Prague, more than 200 athletes were scheduled to participate in CIOR’s military...

Sudden Knock-Out or Eventual Points Loss - How Our Security State Will Lose The Fight 2017 CIOR SEMINAR – AFTER-ACTION-REPORT MAY 2017 The 2017 CIOR Seminar, assembling Reserve Officers from some 15 countries, most of them NATO members, took its participants from an...

Australia invited into CIOR Australia invited into CIOR 2017 Summer Congress in Prague produced a landmark invitation for CIOR in its Partnership for Peace and Outreach dimension. The PfP&O Committee presented the official invitation to the CIOR President for...

7th annual CIMEX - The Migration Crisis Reservists, being twice the citizen, with one foot in the civilian world and the other in the military, are ideally suited to carry out the Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) role for NATO. The upcoming CIMIC Exercise (CIMEX)...

Invitation to the Norwegian military skills competition 2017 From our Northernmost CIOR Delegation: Norske Reserveoffiserers Forbund (Norwegian Reserve Officers’ Association) Invitation to the Norwegian military skills competition 2017 The Norwegian Reserve Officers’...

STRATEGY CIOR 3.0 - 2020 AND BEYOND Internationally, the value of the role of reservists is becoming more recognised and the reliance on the use of reservists is increasing. With increasing and rapid technological and social developments it is important that CIOR...

CIOR In-Between Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic After welcoming the delegates from national reserve (officer) associations as well as committee representatives, CIOR President LtCOL. Libezny pointed out that this IBM will serve as a starting point for planning...

Hybrid threats: The Reservist Solution: A Cyber Reserve Providing NATO With Real-World Expertise The Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR) Partnership for Peace and Outreach (PfP & O) Committee and the Unione Nazionale Ufficiali in Congedo...

CIOR’s President Participates in Blue Beret Security Conference Brno, Czech Republic hosted the eighth International United Nations (UN) Missions Service Members meeting earlier this month. The conference was organized by a Czech Republic association Czechoslovak...

South Africa: A contributor to NATO’s Peace Keeping, and Maritime Interdiction (Anti-Piracy), Operations, welcomes the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR) Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers Secretary General (CIOR SG) 1st LT Jaroslav...

CIOR & CIOMR Presidencies Transition as Resilience Dominates Dialogue The 69th Summer Congress of the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR), and the Interallied Confederation of Medical Reserve Officers (CIOMR), hosted this year by the Federacion de...

Building Resilience at Home and Abroad: The Role of Reservists Recent major changes in our security environment have made mandatory the study of new concepts. New buzzwords have appeared that try to define, or at least reveal, a shift of paradigm. Among those,...

CIOR CIMEX 2016 - A Success in Madri For the fifth year, the CIOR Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Committee has organised a CIMEX (CIMIC exercise) prior to the CIOR Summer Congress. This year it was held at the Military Engineering Academy in Hoyo near Madrid. The...

INTERALLIED CONFEDERATION OF RESERVE OFFICERS (CIOR) ANNUAL REPORT JULY 2015-JULY 2016 INTERALLIED CONFEDERATION OF RESERVE OFFICERS (CIOR) ANNUAL REPORT JULY 2015-JULY 2016 CIOR Annual Report 2015-16 is attached here below....

2016 Winter Seminar on IS To read more you can visit the Seminar Committees new website. Sunday afternoon: The CIOR 2016 Winter Seminar commenced today. LtCol Hans Garrels, Chairman of the CIOR Seminar Committee, welcomed the speakers, panel members and other...

Secretary General’s Annual Report - 2015 Mr. Stoltenberg welcomed Allies’ progress on defence spending, noting that “after many years of substantial reductions in defence spending, the cuts have now practically stopped among European Allies and Canada. And in 2015,...