EUFOR Chief of Staff, Brigadier General András Szűcs began a tour of seven visits to meet with his 10 Embedded Advisory Teams (EATs) around BiH on 29 April 2014. These EATs are small groups of advisors who work in close coordination with their counterparts from the Armed Forces of BiH (AF BiH) in various organizations, embedded to the force structure of AF BiH at Joint Staff level down to the brigades. They are part of EUFOR’s main effort working on Partnership Goals to build and improve the capacity of the AF BiH on a wide variety of military capabilities.
There are two teams at the AF BiH Joint Staff HQ in Sarajevo one of which is the so called ‘Lessons Learned’ EAT, where two Polish staff officers work on implementing Lessons Learned doctrines and systems for AF BiH.

The other embedded team in the Joint Staff HQ consists of an Albanian and a Dutch senior staff officer who work closely with the key decision makers in AF BiH on different capacity building projects and tasks according to the Partnership Goals requirements as a part of the Partnership for Peace Action Review Plan.
After a warm welcome, Brigadier General Szűcs first met with Brigadier General Tepšić, the Deputy Chief Joint Staff Operations of AF BiH, to familiarize himself with the current situation at the Joint Staff level and to improve the cooperation for future capacity building efforts for AF BiH and they agreed to meet again after Brigadier General Szűcs concludes his visit programme by the middle of June. Their discussion also concerned the establishment of a joint working group in the near future, to further improve the work of the EATs.

After the meeting, LTC Jan Bogusz and LTC Hans Goedings, both from EUFOR, gave Brigadier General Szűcs presentations on the current status of several of the projects related to the Partnership Goals that they are advising and assisting on. In conclusion, Brigadier General Szűcs stated that EUFOR’s main focus will be to continue to assist AF BiH to build their capacity and incorporate robust and self-sustaining systems to further their integration into Euro-Atlantic structures. After this visit, COS EUFOR will continue his programmed tour at the different levels of the AF BiH command structures.