NATO Library: NATO Publications

• Allied Command Transformation (ACT)

• Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) is a fundamental process which enables transformation activities. This CD&E Handbook provides basic information for the concept developer based on approved NATO guidance and policy as well as best practice derived from a rich history of CD&E experience. Although designed to address Alliance CD&E activities it has been developed with a vision of informing NATO nations, our partners and other nations and organizations. Accordingly, significant effort has been taken to ensure applicability of the methodology across the broadest user community.

• Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence (CCOE)
• The main purpose of this handbook is to provide a tactical reference, and an operational command level insight, for all personnel involved in Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) and Civil-Military Interaction (CMI) activities, across the full mission spectrum. The secondary purpose is to create awareness for those organizations and individuals who have a vested interest in CIMIC/CMI activities.

• This handbook, published by the Joint Analysis & Lessons Learned Centre (3rd ed.) uses NATO's approach to Lessons Learned as the underlying model but has been written to be relevant to any organization.
• The purpose of this handbook is to guide and assist you in fulfilling your role in supporting their organization and NATO to effectively learn from experience.

• The NATO Logistics Handbook is published under the auspices of the Logistics Committee (LC) and aims to introduce logisticians at every level to some of NATO’s basic principles, policies, concepts and the organisations which they will encounter in the course of their work.

NATO Operations Assessment Handbook (July 2015)

• This handbook defines and describes operations assessment principles, procedures and techniques in NATO, within the construct of operations planning, and should be used in conjunction with the Comprehensive Operations Planning Directive (COPD).

• By Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC - UK)

• This publication is a product of the NATO Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence (COE C-IED - Spain)

CMRE Open Library

• CMRE Open Library is the digital repository of open access full text publications of the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentaiton (CMRE - Italy). Its main contents are technical reports, conference papers, and journal articles authored by the Centre scientists and engineers since its foundation in 1959.

Communicator

• By the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA).
• Established in 2016, NCI Agency's Communicator Magazine covers cyber trends, the Agency's latest achievements, forecasts of the future, and milestones of the past.

• By The Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT - Turkey)

• This Academic Journal is a bi-annual, open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO STRATCOM-COE - Latvia).

• By NATO HQ Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (NATO SACT - USA)

JALLC NATO Lessons Learned Portal (NLLP)

• By NATO Joint Analysis & Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC - Portugal)
• This portal is the single storing, tracking and sharing tool for the NATO Lessons Learned related information. The NLLP has various functionalities including : facilitating and announcing events; sharing information within the Lessons Learned (LL) Community; acting as a sharing platform for all kind of LL related documents.

JALLC Publications

• By NATO Joint Analysis & Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC - Portugal)
• Including the "NATO Lessons Learned Handbook", the "Joint Analysis Handbook", the "JALLC Explorer" Magazine.

• By NATO´s Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC - Germany)

• By NATO Allied Land Command. A bi-annual printed publication of NATO ALC (LANDCOM - Turkey).

• NCI Agency delivers secure, coherent, cost effective and interoperable communications and information systems and services. The NCI Agency list of Publications reflects the Agency’s mission, as well as involvement in various projects.

NATO Defense College - Vox Collegii Magazine

• Half-yearly publication from the NATO Defense College (NDC - Italy)

• The NATO Legal Gazette is an educational outreach publication produced by the HQ SACT Legal Offices in Norfolk and Staff Element Europe co-located at SHAPE in Mons, Belgium.
• The NATO Legal Gazette is not a formal NATO document. Its articles do not represent the official opinions or positions of NATO or individual governments.

• By NATO Headquarters, Public Diplomacy Division. NATO Review online magazine looks at key security issues through the eyes of the experts. (NHQ - Belgium)

• Available to NATO staff at NATO HQ and at some other NATO stations.

• The concept itself of military forces performing police duties to cover the “security gap” has evolved up to the current concept of Stability Policing (SP). The CoE's website offers direct links to NATO Stability Policy Frameworks and other documents related to this field.

• The NATO StratCom CoE, based in Riga, Latvia, contributes to improved strategic communications capabilities within the Alliance and Allied nations.

• The NMIOTC MIO Journal is a professional publication aiming to serve as a forum for the presentation and stimulation of innovative thinking on NATO Maritime Interdiction related issues such as doctrine, concepts, force structure, employment and readiness.

• By NATO Allied Joint Force Command (JFCB - the Netherlands).

STO Publications

• By NATO Science & Technology Organization

The Three Swords

• By NATO Joint Warfare Centre (JWC - Norway)
• "The Three Swords" is the JWC's authorized magazine published three times a year by the Public Affairs Office.

Glossary of Human Resource Management in the Public Sector (April 2021)

• The NATO Building Integrity (BI) toolkit has a new effective learning tool – ''Glossary of Human Resource Management in the Public Sector''. Developed by the Norwegian Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector (CIDS), this new, quick and reliable reference material is designed for civil servants and public sector managers as well as individuals from civil society organisations and media.

Science & Technology Trends 2020-240 : Exploring the S&T Edge (March 2020)

• Published by NATO Science & Technology Organization
• Looks at defence technology trends over the next 20 years and their impact on our collective security. The report targets leaders and opinion-makers in the defence and security sector, as well as experts seeking insights into specific technologies.

Stability Policing : A Tool to Project Stability (November 2017)

• Published by NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, this volume is designed to provide perspective, promote thoughts and present opportunities to facilitate transparent debate and development of an operational Stability Policing capability for the Alliance.

Strategic Foresight Analysis (SFA) 2017 Report (November 2017)

• Published by NATO Allied Command Transformation, the Strategic Foresight Analysis (SFA) 2017 Report builds upon the SFA 2013 and 2015 Update Reports and provides a wide-ranging shared understanding of the future security environment.
• The SFA describes the future NATO expects to unfold to 2035 and beyond, depicted as political, social, technological, economic, and environmental trends. Where trends may move in diverging directions, an alternative view is provided to maintain utmost objectivity.
• It is based on a review of many national, think tank, international organisations and industry future studies. Sources also comprised studies from non-NATO countries, including China and India, and South Asian partners such as Australia.

NATO Governance and Delivery of Commonly Funded Capabilities: Improving Support to NATO Commanders (April 2017)

• A Report Produced by an independent Group of Senior Experts (18 April 2017). The Group of Senior Experts (GSE) was appointed by the Secretary General on 20 October 2016 to provide independent advice and recommendations, in response to two recent performance audit reports by the International Board of Auditors for NATO (IBAN), which highlighted the need for improved governance arrangements.

NATO Brand Guide (March 2017)

• A practical guide to working with the NATO brand.

NATO ACO/ACT Digital Media Management Guide [s.d. - c. 2017]

• The goal of the introductory Digital Media Management Guide is to help our community accomplish this intent by streamlining, standardising and synchronising digital media management.

Cybersecurity: A Generic Reference Curriculum (October 2016)

• In an effort to satisfy specific partner education and training needs, the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) Emerging Security Challenges Working Group (ESCWG) has developed a Cybersecurity Reference Curriculum.
• This document is the result of the work of a multinational team of volunteer academics and researchers drawn from 17 nations associated with the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) Emerging Security Challenges Working Group (ESCWG). The aim was to produce a flexible and generally comprehensive approach to the issue of cybersecurity.

• The Building Integrity Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is a key component of the practical tools developed in the framework of the Building Integrity (BI) Programme.
• Introduced in 2008, the BI SAQ was designed as an analytical tool for use by nations.

• Lord Ismay, Secretary General and Vice-President of the North Atlantic Council announced in October 1953 his attention to "describe the work of NATO in every field since the foundation of the Atlantic Alliance. Such a five-years' survey of NATO would place in proper perspective the progress achieved since 1949…"