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Senior UK Army Reservist visits Estonian Exercise
Tallinn 9 May 2019: Major General Bill O’Leary from the UK (UK Deputy Commander Field Army and senior UK Army Reservist) yesterday visited Estonian Defence League (EDL) troops taking part in the annual live exercise “Spring Storm”. EDL is a voluntary...
CIOR Delegates visit Estonian Battlefield Exercise
Tallinn 9 May 2019: CIOR delegates yesterday visited Exercise “Spring Storm” in Estonia. A part of the exercise was a battlefield first aid scenario after an artillery unit was hit by counter battery fire. The delegates witnessed an artillery battery...
CIOR and CIOMR aiming at more cooperation
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...
Young Reserve Officer Seminar in Finland
The Young Reserve Officer Seminar this year took place in Finland, near Helsinki. Some 40 young reserve officers from eleven countries attended the three day event and took part in practical and theory on cross-cultural leadership and related topics. Led by the YROW...
CIOR President Speaks at Diversity Conference
The President of CIOR Colonel Chris Argent (Retd.) recently spoke at a conference on diversity in the armed forces, in Quebec, Canada. The conference, organized by UNIDEF (project management company in defense industry dealing with technology and know-how transfer of...
Reserve organizations discuss cooperation
The Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR) and the Interallied Confederation of Non-Commissioned Officers (CISOR) presidents, Colonel (R) Chris Argent and Master Sergeant (R) Michel d’Alessandro, agree to look at what activities they might be able to...
CIOR-CIOMR Summer Congress 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia, host city for the 2019 CIOR and CIOMR Summer Congresses. The largest annual meeting of these two organizations is jointly held each summer in a different country and is organized by a separate member of CIOR/CIOMR each year; in 2017, the Congress was...
CIOR and NRFC renew Memorandum of Understanding
The National Reserve Forces Committee (NRFC) and the Confédération Interalliée des Officiers de Réserve (CIOR) come together once more to enhance their partnership during the CIOR Mid Winter Meeting at the NATO HQ in Brussels. Story by: NATO HQ From 29 to 31 January,...
Understanding Tomorrow’s Warfare Begins Today
The 2019 CIOR Seminar on “Warfare 2030 – Technology, Policy, Ethics” was held in Bonn (Germany) from January 26 to 29, 2019, with young CIOR reserve officers as well as seasoned members from many NATO participating countries. By Major Jean-François Lambert,...
A good start
CIOR held the first In-Between-Meeting (IBM) of the UK / Estonian Presidency in Tallinn from 15 to 17 November. -I was very pleased to welcome over 60 delegates from our member Reserve Associations, and especially the President of CIOMR and the President of CISOR,...
Reservists make up most of Estonia’s armed forces
Estonians bravely pledge to defend themselves “in all circumstanses and against all adversaries, no matter how overwhelming”. And most of the country’s armed forces are actually made up of reservists. The small Baltic country of 1,3 million people...
CIOR “In-Between-Meeting” kicks off in Tallinn
The CIOR In-Between-Meeting (IBM) 1 in Tallinn, Estionia, kicked off this morning. The Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces designate, Major General Herem, opened the morning session, and received the CIOR Plaque by CIOR President, UK Colonel Chris Argent (R). The...
British CIOR Presidency visiting Estonia
The new British CIOR Presidency led by Colonel (R) Chris Argent visited Estonia in september. This was in light of the 2019 CIOR Summer Congress in Tallinn, Estonia. The British Presidency is working closely with the Estonians, who are scheduled to take over the...
UK takes over Presidency at Summer Congress in Quebec City
August 10, 2018 – Quebec, CIOR Public Affairs. By: U.S. Air Force Reserve Senior Airman Justin Fuchs. Canada hosted the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR) and Interallied Confederation of Medical Reserve Officers (CIOMR) annual Summer Congress from...
Technology and cyber top-of-mind during civil-military cooperation exercise
Canadian Army·Thursday, August 23, 2018 By Second Lieutenant Natalia Flynn, Army Public Affairs Quebec City, Quebec — Reservist civil-military affairs specialists from 14 nations came together in early August 2018 for the seventh annual CIMEX (Civil-Military...
CIOR CIMEX 2017 – Forging greater CIMIC Resilience in Prague
CIOR CIMEX 2017Forging 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 was a success
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 Madrid
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...
CIOR Annual Report 2015-16
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
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
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,...
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