Multinational Experiment 6

Multinational Experiment 6 (MNE 6) is a two-year multinational and interagency effort to improve coalition capabilities to counter irregular adversaries and to prevent non-compliant actors from becoming adversaries through application of the comprehensive approach.

Although U.S. Joint Forces Command leads MNE 6, the experiment involves eighteen contributing nations and NATO who will lead or significantly contribute to the development of eleven specific objective areas during the experiment to achieve the following four outcomes:

• Gain shared situational understanding of the operational environment (Led by NATO Allied Command Transformation) - Develop methods, processes, staff structures and tools to facilitate better information use by multinational military and civilian organizations.

• Synchronize efforts and assist host nations (Led by the United Kingdom) - Develop guidelines to improve compliance and reduce the possibility of non-compliant actors from becoming adversaries and increase the ability to support host nation governance and authority

• Collaboratively develop and implement a shared regional or transnational information strategy (Led by Germany) - Develop a framework for analysis and assessment of the information environment to understand and engage foreign and domestic audiences

• Assess campaign progress and success in order to better adapt to the situation (Led by the United States) - Develop guiding principles, methods and approaches for assessment of progress in complex operations.

Participating nations and organizations include: