ATO Leaders approved a new Strategic Concept for the Alliance at the Madrid Summit on 29 June 2022, setting out NATO’s priorities, core tasks and approaches for the next decade. The 2022 Strategic Concept describes the security environment facing the Alliance, reaffirms its values, and spells out NATO’s key purpose of ensuring collective defence for its Allies. It further sets out NATO’s three core tasks of deterrence and defence; crisis prevention and management; and cooperative security.

Background information on the Alliance, its policies, activities and structures. This resource acts as a Handbook for NATO Topics

On 14 March 2024, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg released his Annual Report for 2023. It details NATO’s work and achievements throughout the year, including the Alliance’s welcoming of Finland as its 31st Ally, the Vilnius Summit, where the Alliance strengthened its collective defence and brought Ukraine closer to NATO, and the deepening cooperation with NATO’s partners in the Indo-Pacific.

The Report contains the results of NATO’s annual public perception polls.
This publication is available in both French and English

NATO Review is a free online magazine offering expert opinion, analysis and debate on a broad range of security issues.

New official NATO Terminology Database coordinated by the NATO Terminology Office (NTO).
NATOTerm contains non-classified military terminology, as well as non-military terminology relevant to NATO.