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NEW - The 2019 Secretary General's Annual Report

On 19 March 2020, Jens Stoltenberg released his sixth annual report as NATO Secretary General. For the first time, the Report includes polls on the public perception of the Alliance. These demonstrate that overall support for the NATO Alliance is strong.

NATO PUBLICATIONS & OFFICIAL TEXTS

NATO A-Z (Topic pages)

  • All about NATO in the form of a thematic index.

NATO Encyclopedia

  • A compilation of archived online topic pages which explain every aspect of the Organization: its origin and fundamental security tasks, policies and decision-making processes, peace-support and crisis-management operations and how the Alliance tackles threats and develops capabilities. The pages also cover NATO’s partnerships and cooperative activities, its civilian and military structures, and specialised organisations and agencies, as well as NATO’s wider activities.

NATO Publications

  • A selection of NATO electronic publications. They are available in electronic format only but can be downloaded and printed.

NATO Archives

  • Chronological sets of documents issued by the International Staff and the NATO Military Authorities between 1949 and 1982.
  • E-mail: nato.archives@hq.nato.int

NATO Archives Online

  • Provides users with the opportunity to explore the first 10 years of the Alliance’s history through the Committee documents of the North Atlantic Council and its sub-committees.

NATO Standardization Agreements

  • STANAGS, AACP, AAP, AASTP, AECTP, AEDP, AJP, AOP, AQAP, ARMP, ATP, AdatP
  • E-mail: nso@nso.nato.int or send a written request addressed to NATO Standardization Office, NATO HQ, 1110 Brussels, Belgium 

NATOTerm

  • 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. 

NATO Official Texts

  • Official texts of the Alliance, from the Treaty and its protocols to the Partnership for Peace documents, as well as the complete texts of all NATO Ministerial Communiqués since 1949.

NATO Basic Texts

  • A thematic overview of NATO's most important official texts : from the Treaty and its protocols to the Partnership for Peace

Other NATO Official Documents

NATO HANDBOOKS

Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation Public Affairs Handbook (October 2014)
  • A 'hands-on' publication for NATO Command Structure (NCS) Public Affairs (PA) practitioners on how to conduct the Public Affairs functions of External Communications, Internal Communications, and Community Relations, focused on deployed operations".
  • It expands on both ACO's 095-001 "Allied Command Operations Public Affairs" and ACT's 95-10 "Public Affairs Policy" directives, takes into account the substantial contribution of NATO member nations and subordinate commands and is to be considered an approved collection of tested tactics, techniques and procedures and best practices to guide and synchronise NCS Public Affairs activities at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of command.
CD&E Handbook (2018)

  • 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 CIMIC Field Handbook (2016)
  • Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence (CCOE), 4th edition.
  • 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.
 NATO Advanced Distributed Learning Handbook (2019)
  • The NATO Advanced Distributed Learning Handbook is published and maintained by the NATO Training Group (NTG) Individual Training and Educational Developments (IT&ED) task group. It provides guidelines for the development, implementation and evaluation of technology enhanced learning.

NATO Handbook (2006)

  • The NATO Handbook was published by the NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division under the authority of the Secretary General as a reference book on the Alliance and on Alliance policies.
  • It is no longer updated and is shown here for historical purposes only. For an updated content, please refer to the NATO Encyclopedia.
NATO Lessons Learned Handbook (February 2016)
  • 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.
NATO Logistics Handbook (November 2012)
  • 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).

NATO ANNUAL REPORTS

Secretary General's Annual Report

Annual Report to Council by the Resource Policy and Planning Board (RPPB)

The RPPB is a subsidiary body of the North Atlantic Council and has a lead policy and planning role in all NATO military common funded resource areas. The Annual Report analyses how NATO’s common-funded resources support approved Alliance objectives and priorities; assesses the performance of military common funding; and reviews the financial situation of the NATO Security Investment Programme and the Civil and Military Budgets.

The NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme
 
The Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme is one of NATO’s most important partnership tools, providing support to NATO’s political framework by developing and implementing joint collaborative activities with all partner countries. The Annual Report presents you with a detailed overview of the work and main achievements of the SPS Programme.
 
 
Summary of the National Reports of NATO Member and Partner Nations to the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP) on the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
NATO's comparative study on the integration of gender perspectives in the armed forces.
 
Gender Perspectives in the Armed Forces - National Reports from 2008 to 2014
 

PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER NATO ENTITIES

ARRC Journal
C-IED COE Newsletter

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).
Defence Against Terrorism Review
Defence Strategic Communications
Innovation in Capability Development Publication Series
JALLC Publications
  • Including the "NATO Lessons Learned Handbook", the "Joint Analysis Handbook", the "JALCC Explorer" Magazine.
JAPCC Journal
Land Power Magazine
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) Publications
NATO Defense College - Research Publications 
  • NDC Policy Briefs, NDC Research Papers, Russian Studies and Books (NDC - Italy)

NATO Defense College - Vox Collegii Magazine

  • Half-yearly publication from the NATO Defense College (NDC - Italy)
The NATO Legal Gazette
  • 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.
NATO Open Perspectives Exchange Network (OPEN) Publications
  • By by NATO Allied Command Transformation’s Operational Experimentation Branch.
NRDC-ITA Magazine
  • By the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Italy. 
NATO Review
NATO's Science for Peace and Security Publications
NSPCOE - NATO Stability Policy CoE
  • 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.
NATO StratCom CoE Publications
NMIOTC - NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre - Hellas
Northern Star
PfPC Policy Briefs / Background Papers
  • The Emerging Security Challenges Working Group is co-chaired by the NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).

STO Publications

The Three Swords

  • "The Three Swords" is the JWC's authorized magazine published three times a year by the Public Affairs Office.

 

OTHER NATO-SPECIFIC PUBLICATIONS

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)

  • 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.
Building Integrity : Self-Assessment Questionnaire and Peer Review Process (Feb. 2015)
  • Introduced in 2008, the BI SAQ was designed as an analytical tool for use by nations.
NATO Military Public Affairs Policy (First printing, June 2011)
  • This booklet contains the agreed language from MC 0457/2, approved in December 2010 by the 28 Chiefs of Defence that make up NATO’s Military Committee, and endorsed by the North Atlantic Council in February 2011.
NATO: The first 5 years 1949-1954 -  by Lord Ismay, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1955)
  • 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…"

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