Lieutenant Colonel Nick Andrew [GBR]

Assistant Chief of Staff G35 NRDC-Türkiye

Lieutenant Colonel Nick Andrew is a British Artillery officer specialised in field artillery and the application of joint fires. He has operational experience both as a fires specialist and an operational planner and has experience of working at all levels of command. Over the last ten years, he has become specialised in warfare development with extensive experience in policy, doctrine and concept development as well as operational lessons. He has been the NATO and UK’s lead for developing operational tradecraft manuals for strategic communications, information operations, psychological operations, military public affairs, operations security, deception and targeting that direct how best to operate and guide what is taught with these areas based on experiences from operations and history. He has been the lead developer for a new geo-political and audience understanding process to support decision making and the execution of military activities. Nick is an established and recognised NATO strategic communications subject matter expert regularly asked to support the delivery of education across NATO and UK. Nick is currently employed as the G35 Branch head in NATO Rapid Deployable Corps - Türkiye with responsibility for joint targeting, integration of joint effects, force deployment and integration, operations planning and synchronisation of activities. He was the lead operations planner for the development of NATO’s land tactical plan for defensive and deterrence operations within Türkiye.