As a result of the 2016 Warsaw Summit, NATO has boosted its forward presence in the eastern part of the Alliance, with four multinational battalion-size battlegroups (BG) in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (B3&P), on a rotational basis.
The JALLC was recently tasked to conduct support Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) in developing an Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Handbook that would be based on Lessons Learned since the deployment of the BGs to the B3&P.

A significant number of observations and lessons were collected by the four fully operational BGs and LANDCOM through the implementation of their Lessons Learned process. These observations and lessons were provided to the JALLC which conducted a three-month long content analysis allowing the team to come up with more than 50 good practices, notes, and recommendations which were then grouped into nine different chapters, and a supporting lessons learned annex.

The eFP Handbook guides the reader through the development of the eFP BGs and recognizes the importance of implementing a Lessons Learned process by sharing experiences from past eFP BG's with their current and future counterparts.

The eFP Handbook is intended to be a living document and this first edition will likely be followed by updates incorporating new observations and lessons. In order to capture and collect these potential future observations and lessons the NATO Lessons Learned Portal (NLLP) will continue to serve as a gateway to the NATO Lessons Learned Process. The JALLC will continue to provide NATO-wide support by analysing these lessons in order to exploit their potential value for the whole of the Alliance.