The JALLC-UKR Initiative
On 24 February 2022, Russia illegally invaded Ukraine. The JALLC has been contributing to NATO's efforts to support the Ukrainian armed forces, through the JALLC's various activities and products. This included analysis reports, support to development of a national Lessons Learned capability, and Lessons Learned training.
In 2024, it was decided to dedicate JALLC resources to NATO's support to Ukraine by setting up the JALLC-UKR Initiative, intended to be the single point of reference for NATO’s Lessons Learned Information relating to Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is staffed by a dedicated team of JALLC analysts, forming the JALLC Ukraine-Russia Lessons Analysis Team, or JURLAT for short.
The JALLC-UKR Initiative's activities include:
- developing analysis products that help NATO understand the lessons it can learn from Russia’s war against Ukraine,
- hosting the JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre on the NATO Lessons Learned Portal. This information centre allows users to collect and collate relevant Lessons Learned related information on Russia's war against Ukraine, ranging from NATO-produced documents to publicly available reports that provide a wealth of information for users.
- a quarterly newsletter, updating the community on the latest Lessons Learned news regarding NATO's efforts to learn from Russia's war against Ukraine, including useful links and insights on related key issues.
You can read more about these activities on this page.
As the JALLC-UKR Initiative is primarily focused on ensuring that NATO can learn the lessons from Russia's war against Ukraine, most of the work done by the JURLAT takes place on the classified system, dealing with classified information. However, earlier this year it was decided to broaden accessibility to the JALLC-UKR Initiative by developing an unclassified version of the JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre on the unclassified version of the NATO Lessons Learned Portal. The dedicated area in the portal contains a library with relevant unclassified (and open source) material that can be used by anyone with a NATO Lessons Learned Portal account.
Find out more about how you can get access to the unclassified version of the NATO Lessons Learned Portal HERE.
You can engage with the JALLC-UKR Initiative at [email protected] on the NATO unclassified and classified systems, or via the JALLC-UKR Information Centre on the classified version of the NLLP.
JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre
As part of the JALLC-UKR Initiative, the JALLC set up the JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre. Initially only available on the classified version of the NATO Lessons Learned Portal (NLLP), you can now access a limited version of this information centre on the publicly accessible, unclassified version of the NLLP.
The unclassified JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre hosts a library of open source reports and related information relevant to NATO’s learning lessons from Russia’s war against Ukraine, providing a one-stop-shop for those looking for useful research material on the topic.
The classified JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre allows users to upload and download a more extensive array of related information, contact members of the community of interest, and find relevant events in a dedicated calendar.
You can access the JALLC-UKR Initiative Information Centre through your classified/unclassified NLLP account. Note that classified users will be required register for the JALLC-UKR Initiative community of interest to gain full access.
If you don’t yet have an unclassified NLLP account, click HERE to go to the NLLP homepage to find out how you can request one.
JALLC-UKR Initiative Newsletter
The JALLC-UKR Initiative also publishes a quarterly newsletter. This newsletter aims to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the latest relevant insights and initiatives related to Lessons Learned from Russia’s war against Ukraine. You can download a copy of the latest edition HERE which contains the latest from the JALLC-UKR Initiative including the top three must-read reports, what the deputy minister of defence of Ukraine had to say at the NATO Lessons Learned Conference, and what the impact for the Washington Summit will be for Lessons Learned and the Lessons from Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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