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NATO Official Homepage an alliance of 26 countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. In accordance with the Treaty, the fundamental role of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. NATO is playing an increasingly important role in crisis management and peacekeeping.

Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact The PHP provides new scholarly perspectives on contemporary international history by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting formerly secret governmental documents. In response to the declassification of NATO records and the steadily growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, PHP as a cooperative undertaking of more than twenty partner institutes brings together leading Cold War historians, archivists, and government officials. The findings are presented to the specialist academic community at conferences and published both in print and on the PHP website.

NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre Reporting to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, the Centre conducts world class maritime research with products in support of NATO's operational and transformational requirements. The Centre maintains extensive partnering to expand its outputs, to promote maritime innovation and to foster more rapid implementation of the research products. The Scientific Programme of Work (SPOW) is the core of the Centre's activities and is organized into four Research Thrust Areas: Expeditionary MCM and Port Protection (EMP); Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Undersea Networks (RSN); Expeditionary Operations Support (EOS); Command and Operational Support (COS)

Howstuffworks "How NATO Works" If you have ever wondered about this powerful organization, then this article will help you learn about an important part of the world's political landscape. You'll get a basic overview of NATO and its purpose, as well as a series of links to explore for further information.

NATO's Bleak Future by James H. Wyllie; From Parameters, Winter 1998, pp. 113-23.: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the modern world's most enduring and successful military alliance, was founded in 1949. Its core task was to stop something from happening, and it accomplished that task remarkably well for an alliance of originally 12, and later 16, states. For 40 years NATO deterred the military advance of Soviet communism across West Europe. By providing military security NATO facilitated the economic developments that inhibited the political advance of Soviet communism beyond those unfortunate lands in Europe upon which Stalin imposed his ideology in the aftermath of the Second World War.

NATO: The Strange Alliance Getting Stranger by Michael G. Roskin; From Parameters, Summer 1998, pp. 30-38.: NATO is simultaneously expanding and hollowing out, a dangerous combination that is being little considered in the current anemic debate over NATO enlargement, a debate largely devoid of historical and strategic context. This writer does not oppose admitting new members in Central Europe but believes the question of NATO expansion is being badly framed. We may wish to expand NATO, but we must understand that such a move has geostrategic consequences and must be followed through with sufficient power.

NATO in the 21st Century: A Strategic Vision by Robert E. Hunter; From Parameters, Summer 1998, pp. 15-29.: Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells of a conversation he had with the late Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev in the latter days of the Soviet Union. Crowe, an Oklahoman not known for mincing words, asked, "Tell me Marshal, how come you never attacked us? Was it the fact that we had the bomb? Was it the Seventh Army and the Sixth Fleet?" Whether Marshal Akhromeyev was dissembling or not will never be known, but he reportedly responded, "No. It was because we knew that, if we took on one country, we were going to have to take on 16."

NATO CJTF Doctrine: The Naked Emperor by Thomas Cooke; From Parameters, Winter 1998, pp. 124-36.: With the demise of the Soviet Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become an entity in search of a mission. For almost 50 years, NATO members joked privately that the Alliance existed for three reasons: to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. The Alliance had a clear mission, and developed, practiced, and maintained a collective defense capability whereby an attack against one was an attack against all.[1] But the rules have changed. Moscow has a voice in European affairs, the United States continues to debate the merits of maintaining a robust European presence, and the German economy will soon provide the backbone for a common European currency. NATO's traditional nemesis, the Warsaw Pact, is gone, and by all accounts no legitimate external threat exists to Western European security for the mid to long term. Collective defense rhetoric now rings hollow to some, and NATO policymakers are trying to justify a large and expensive military capability that some believe is irrelevant.

NATO (Dept. of State information site): Fact sheets, news and summit information about NATO.

Documents Relating to the History of NATO and its Contemporary Issues

CNN In-Depth Specials - NATO at 50

Army Technology - NATO Response Force The NATO Response Force (NRF) was proposed during the Nato Summit held in late November, 2002. The 19 existing members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) voted unanimously to modernize the alliance so it can confront threats from international terrorism, hostile dictatorial regimes and rogue states. NATO's main mission of protecting the nations that comprise the Alliance will remain, but focused against these new threats rather than the old enemy of the Cold War, Russia. The NATO Response Force should be operational by 2006 and is intended to fulfill a key role in the US-led war on terror, and to meet and respond to threats from weapons of mass destruction.

The NATO Citizen - Support NATO and the North Atlantic Alliance! Most of the important papers written for The NATO Citizen website are located here. The NATO Citizen website was used by students and grad students for "first line" research efforts. Most of the material here is about the political and non-military nature of NATO.

NATO AWACS E-3A Component Welcome to the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force E-3A Component Website. It is our intention to provide you with a comprehensive look at what we do and services we provide. Please feel free to browse this site.

Did NATO Win the Cold War? This documentary supplement to the article, "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall," has been prepared on the occasion of the Washington summit marking the 50th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is intended to provide the reader with the most important sources referred to in the text of the article that are relevant to the view of NATO "from the other side."

FM 8-9 Part I/Nuclear - Table of Contents NATO HANDBOOK ON THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF NBC DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS AMedP-6(B) The purpose of this publication is to provide medical personnel of the NATO Armed Forces with information on the biomedical effects of nuclear weapons and the impact of the use of nuclear weapons on the different aspects of medical field operations.

HQ ARRC - Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Official Homepage “HQ ARRC, as a High Readiness Force (Land) HQ, is to be prepared to deploy under NATO, EU or coalition auspices to a designated area, to undertake combined and joint operations across the operational spectrum as: - a Corps HQ, - a Land Component HQ, - a Land Component HQ in command of the NATO Response Force, - a Combined Joint Force Land Component Command, in order to support crisis management options or the sustainment of extant operations.”

NATO ASI The objective of this Advanced Study Institute (ASI) is twofold. The first is to expose the four main components of seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasting systems along with several illustrative examples for each component: A) Generation of initial conditions for dynamical model forecasts; B) Dynamical models and their coupling; C) Statistical modeling, calibration and model output assessment; D) Application of forecast products to specific users with emphasis on applications related to security. The second is to offer a judgment of the limitations and prospects of seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasting systems. Ways to improve the communications between modelers, forecasters, and applications experts in order to more effectively obtain potential benefits for this emerging science will also be addressed.

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