Major

Shawn 

Kelley 

Allied Air Command

Major Kelley is the Executive Officer of the NATO Battlefield Coordination Detachment, at Allied Air Command, Ramstein, Germany. He is an Artilleryman and SME in Air and Land Integration, and the primary development officer of the ALI Forum, NATO’s foremost effort in integrating the Air and Land domains. Before this role, MAJ Kelley was an Advisor to the Nation of Georgia’s Defence Forces, helping develop modern training and doctrine programmes. Other previous assignments include Armistice compliance inspection in the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea and South Korea; Chief Targeting Officer at LANDCOM, Izmir, Türkiye; and principal staff trainer in the Artillery Battalion of the King Abdulaziz Mechanized Brigade, Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. Major Kelley has multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan; he has also worked in several programmes of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.

Information provided is current as of September 2025

From the Author

Integrating the Blue and Green Domains

Evolving NATO Air-Land Integration for Multi-Domain Operations
By Lt Col 
Erhan 
Güleç 
By Maj 
Shawn 
Kelley 
Military operations over the past century have witnessed a profound transformation, evolving from clashes dominated by single components to intricately synchronized joint and multi-domain endeavours. Within this evolution, the effective integration of air and land [...]

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