The Army’s effort to improve partner capability and capacity continues as the week-long Pacific Armies Management Seminar (PAMS) kicked off yesterday in Australia.
PAMS is the Asia-Pacific regions longest running military seminar series and U.S. Army Pacific’s (USARPAC) premier Army Security Cooperation Program (ASCP).
USARPAC co-hosts PAMS with a regional Pacific partner; this year the Australia Army is co-hosting the July 16-20 PAMS XXXVI in Canberra where 27 nations are expected to attend.
The theme is: Asia-Pacific Land Forces, New Challenges, Shared Solutions. Previous conferences have explored transnational threats in the Asia-Pacific, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, and developing security and land forces leaders for the 21st century.
PAMS provides a forum for senior-level officers from regional ground forces and security services to exchange views to increase understanding of the subjects studied and also to create and improve interpersonal relationships among the future leaders of regional armies/security forces.
Through these conferences and its training and exercise programs with Asia-Pacific forces, U.S. Army Pacific has bolstered the regions capabilities and levels of interoperability, more visibly in focus now with the strategic shift to the Asia Pacific region.
U.S. Army Pacific continues to be committed to building partner capacity through security cooperation exchanges, exercises and other events in 36 nations across the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) area of responsibility in support of Theater Security Cooperation efforts.