The 1st Combined Joint Staff Exercise Joint Resolve 2019 (JR19) was organized by the War Studies University (WSU) and the Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL) in Poland.

    Joint Resolve 2019 took place between 6th and 25th of May 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. This was the 1st common operational level exercise orchestrated by the two Professional Military Education institutions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to train and test their military and civilian students.

    Approximately 250 participants from 19 NATO and partner countries, including Subject Matter Experts, observers, trainers and Senior Mentors participated in the exercise. The training audience practised NATO Operations Planning Process (OPP) while applying the Allied Command Operations Comprehensive Operations Planning Directive (COPD).

    The purpose of this multinational exercise was to improve students’ knowledge and ability to execute operations and formulate solutions to complex NATO Article-5 operational problems by developing and executing a viable joint operational plan using standard NATO processes within an international staff.

    The correctness of the solutions adopted by the students during the Planning Phase and the Command and Control skills were tested during the Execution Phase utilising the Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS) computer system provided by the War Games and Simulation Centre of the Polish War Studies University.

    The fictitious scenario of the exercise presupposed a growing political and military crisis, which was transformed into an open armed conflict of fictitious states.

    Exercise Joint Resolve is to be organised annually by BATDEFCOL and WSU as a common educational enhancement activity and is open to an extendeted cooperation of V4 and other countries.

    This year's participating students of both BALTDEFCOL and WSU and observers came from the following nations: Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, South-Korea, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States. Slovakia was represented by LTC Jozef KUCHTA and MAJ René HEČKO from the Armed Forces Acdemy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik in Liptovský Mikuláš.