NATO

Military Structure

Civil Structure

NAC

The North Atlantic Council

Secretary General

NATO Headquarters

Millitary Commitee

Executive body: The International Military Staff (IMS)

Allied Command Operations (ACO)

S.H.A.P.E (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe)

Allied Command Transformation (ACT)

Strategies

Cooperative structures

NATO-Russia Council

Mediterranean Dialogue

Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

Partnership for Peace

Istanbul Cooperation Initiative

Non-article 5 missions

Ukraine

Kosovo

Afganistan

Bośnia i Hercegowina

1991 – New strategic concept - USSR is no longer a threat, but there are new more complex threats, missions outside NATO are becoming more important, nuclear power isn't needed that much anymore

Contingency planning - designing scenarios of reaction to potential threats

Forward Presence - deployment of military into countries like Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania to protect rest of Europe

1967 - flexible response - mutual deterrence (after cuban crisis - Kennedy)

Enhanced Forward Presence 2016 - after Russia's invasion of Crimea and War in Donbass - deployment of four multinational battalion groups to member states at risk of Russian Invasion

The concept of shield and sword (arms + nuclear potential)

After 1950 - Massive retaliation (coined by Eisenhower administration in 1954)

Tailored Forward Presence - Additional support for Romania and Bulgaria

1950 - all activities aimed at collective defence and planning

Very High Joint Readiness Task Force

Even faster in deploying than NATO Response Forces

Every year one member country is responsible for dedicating troops to serve in VJTF

Currently France

2019 Space Policy - space as a new operational domain, alongside air, land, sea and cyberspace - investing in space-based satellites

deployment of troops (60 tyś + 32 tyś) between 1995 and 2004

First Implementation Force (IFOR) then Stabilisation Force (SFOR)

(KFOR) - Peacekeeping forces in Kosovo - since 1999

They are gradually reducing operations untill Kosovo security forces become self sufficient

(ISAF) - International Security Assistance Force (2003 - 2014)

Established under the request of the Afghan authorities and a UN mandate in 2001

Mission: develop new Afghan security forces and enable Afghan authorities to provide effective security across the country