The region of South East Europe SEE, which is home to both NATO and Partnership for Peace PfP countries, serves as an important corridor between Europe and the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus. In recent years, however, SEE has also experienced high levels of cross-border, military and defense-related challenges in the form of migration, smuggling, terrorism, and cyber threats. Furthermore, the use of the new information environment IE to further extremism in SEE and elsewhere in NATO and PfP countries has had far-reaching command and control C2 implications for the Alliance. A collaborative