What is NATO?

• The Washington Treaty
  
• Member countries
  
• National delegations to NATO
  

NATO's fundamental security tasks

• NATO’s fundamental security tasks
  
• Collective defence
  
• Strategic Concepts
  
• Comprehensive Political Guidance
  
• Report of the Committee of Three
  
• The Harmel Report
  

• Consensus decision-making at NATO
  
• Consultation process
  

The principal policy and decision-making institutions

• Working by committee
  
• The North Atlantic Council
  
• The Nuclear Planning Group (NPG)
  
• The Military Committee
  
• Defence Planning Committee (DPC) (Archived)
  
• Summit meetings
  

Crisis management

• Crisis management
  
• Situation Centre at NATO’s Headquarters (SITCEN)
  

The defence planning dimension

• Defence Planning Process
  

Common-funded resources, budgets and financial management

• Paying for NATO
  
• The Resource Policy and Planning Board
  
• International Board of Auditors for NATO (IBAN)
  

Nuclear policy

• NATO's nuclear forces
  

The economic dimension

• Defence and security economics
  
• Information on Defence Expenditures
  

The human dimension

• NATO policy on combating trafficking in human beings
  
• Gender balance and diversity in NATO
  
• NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives
  
• Women, peace and security: NATO’s implementation of UNSCR 1325
  

• NATO operations and missions
  
• Commitment to operations and missions
  
• Troop contributions
  
• Reserve forces
  
• Environmental protection
  

NATO’s role in Afghanistan

• NATO and Afghanistan
• Inteqal: Transition to Afghan lead
  
• NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan
  
• SILK-Afghanistan
  
• NATO's relations with Pakistan
  

NATO-led peace-support operations in the Balkans

• NATO's role in Kosovo
  
• The Kosovo Air Campaign
  
• Peace support operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
• Peace support operations in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹
  

NATO and Libya

• NATO and Libya
  
• NATO and Libya - Operation Unified Protector

NATO naval operations

• NATO naval operations
  
• Counter-piracy operations
  
• Operation Active Endeavour
  

NATO’s role in Iraq

• NATO’s assistance to Iraq
  
• NATO and the 2003 campaign against Iraq
  

NATO support to the African Union

• NATO assistance to the African Union (AU)
  
• Assisting the African Union in Somalia
  
• Contributing to the establishment of an African Standby Force
  
• Assisting the African Union in Darfur, Sudan
  

Civil emergency operations

• Civil Emergency Planning (CEP)
  
• The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC)
  

Emerging security challenges

• NATO and the fight against terrorism
• Defence against terrorism programme of work (DAT POW
  
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
  
• Ballistic missile defence
  
• Defending against cyber attacks
• Science for Peace and Security
• NATO’s role in energy security
  
• Environmental security
  

New capabilities

• Improving NATO’s Capabilities
  
• Interoperability: Connecting NATO Forces
  
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defence Battalion (CBRN)
  
• The NATO Response Force
  
• The Rapid Deployable Corps
  
• Prague Capabilities Commitment (PCC) (Archived)
  
• Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS)
  
• Improving NATO’s strategic air- and sealift capabilities
  
• Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC)
  
• Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS)
  
• Strategic sealift
  
• NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC)
  
• Satcom Post-2000
  
• Centres of Excellence
  

• Enlargement, NATO
  
• Membership Action Plan (MAP)
  

• Partnerships : a cooperative approach to security
• NATO’s relations with partners across the globe
  
• The NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia
  
• Partnership tools
  
• Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAPs)
  
• Partnership for Peace Planning and Review Process (PARP)
  
• The Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism (PAP-T)
  
• Partnership Action Plan for Defence Institution Building (PAP-DIB)
  
• Partnership Trust Funds
  

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership: the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace

• The Euro-Atlantic Partnership (portal)
  
• The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC)
  
• The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) (archived)
  
• The Partnership for Peace programme
  
• Partnership for Peace Status of Forces Agreement
  

NATO and Russia

• Russia-NATO relations
  
• NATO-Russia Council (NRC)
  
• NATO Information Office in Moscow
  
• NATO Military Liaison Mission Moscow
  

NATO and Ukraine

• Ukraine-NATO relations
  
• NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC)
  
• NATO Liaison Office (NLO) in Ukraine
  
• NATO Information and Documentation Centre (NIDC) in Kyiv, Ukraine
  

NATO and Georgia

• NATO’s relations with Georgia
  
• NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC)
  
• NATO Liaison Office (NLO) Georgia
  

Cooperation with countries in the Mediterranean region and the broader Middle East

• Mediterranean Dialogue
  
• Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI)
  

NATO’s relations with PfP countries

• NATO’s relations with Armenia
  
• NATO’s relations with Austria
  
• NATO’s relations with Azerbaijan
  
• NATO’s relations with Belarus
  
• NATO’s relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
• NATO’s relations with Finland
  
• NATO’s relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹
  
• NATO’s relations with Georgia
  
• NATO’s relations with Ireland
  
• NATO’s relations with Kazakhstan
  
• NATO’s relations with the Kyrgyz Republic
  
• NATO’s relations with Malta
  
• NATO’s relations with the Republic of Moldova
  
• NATO’s relations with Montenegro
  
• NATO’s relations with Serbia
  
• NATO’s relations with Sweden
  
• NATO’s relations with Switzerland
  
• NATO’s relations with Tajikistan
  
• NATO’s relations with Turkmenistan
  
• NATO's relations with Uzbekistan
  

Partners across the globe

• NATO’s relations with partners across the globe
  
• NATO cooperation with Australia
  
• NATO cooperation with Japan
  
• NATO cooperation with the Republic of Korea
  
• NATO cooperation with New Zealand
  
• NATO's relations with Pakistan
  
• NATO’s cooperation with Mongolia
  
• NATO’s relations with Iraq
  

• Comprehensive Approach
  
• NATO’s relations with the United Nations
  
• NATO-EU: a strategic partnership
  
• NATO’s relations with the OSCE
  

Cooperation with parliamentary and non-governmental organizations

• The NATO Parliamentary Assembly
  
• The Atlantic Treaty Association and Youth Atlantic Treaty Association
  

Civilian organization and structures

• Working by committee
  
• The NATO Secretary General
  
• International Staff
  
• NATO Headquarters
  
• New NATO Headquarters
  
• NATO Contact Point Embassies
  

Military organization and structures

• Military organization and structures
  
• The Military Committee
  
• Chairman of the Military Committee
  
• International Military Staff (IMS)
  
• Allied Command Operations (ACO)
  
• Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
  
• Allied Command Transformation (ACT)
  
• Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT)
  

Principal NATO committees and policy bodies

• Working by committee
  
• The North Atlantic Council
  
• The Nuclear Planning Group (NPG)
  
• The Military Committee
  
• Defence Planning Committee (DPC) (Archived)
  
• Deputies Committee (DPRC)
  
• Political and Partnerships Committee (PPC)
  
• Defence Policy and Planning Committee
  
• Operations Policy Committee
  
• Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD)
  
• The Resource Policy and Planning Board
  
• Committee on Proliferation (COP)
  
• Logistics Committee
  
• Council Operations and Exercises Committee (COEC)
  
• Consultation, Command and Control Board (C3B)
  
• Civilian Intelligence Committee (CIC)
  
• High-Level Task Force on Conventional Arms Control
  
• Committee for Standardization
  
• Civil Emergency Planning Committee (CEPC)
  
• Air and Missile Defence Committee (AMDC)
  
• Security Committee (SC)
  
• Verification Coordinating Committee (VCC)
  
• The Archives Committee
  
• Committee for Public Diplomacy (CPD)
  
• NATO Air Traffic Management Committee
  

• Organizations and agencies
  
• The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)
  
• The NATO Support Agency (NSPA)
  
• The NATO Procurement Organisation (NPO)
  
• The NATO Science and Technology Organization
  
• NATO Medium Extended Air Defence System Design and Development Production and Logistics Management Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Organisation (NAPMO)
  
• Consultation, Command and Control Board (C3B)
  
• NATO Hawk Management Office (archived)
• NATO Helicopter Design and Development Production and Logistics Management Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Training Group (NTG)
• NATO EF2000 and Tornado Development and Logistics Management Agency (NETMA)
• NATO Standardization Agency (NSA)

Air defence

• NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS)
  
• NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence
  

Airborne early warning

• AWACS: NATO’s 'Eye In The Sky'
  
• NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Organisation (NAPMO)
  

Airspace and air traffic management

• NATO Air Traffic Management Committee
  

Armaments cooperation and planning

• Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD)
  

Arms control and disarmament

• NATO’s role in conventional arms control
  
• Arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation in NATO
  
• Small arms and light weapons (SALW) and mine action
  

Civil Emergency Planning

• Civil Emergency Planning (CEP)
  
• The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC)
  
• Civil Emergency Planning Committee (CEPC)
  

Communication and information systems

• NATO Consultation, Command & Control (C3)

Education and training

• Education and training
  
• Defense College, NATO
  
• Exercises
  

Electronic warfare

• Electronic warfare
  

Logistics

• Logistics
  
• Logistics Committee
  
• Petroleum Committee
  
• NATO Pipeline System
  
• Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS)
  

Medical support

• Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services in NATO (COMEDS)
  

Meteorology and oceanography

• Meteorology and oceanography
  

Public Diplomacy communications and information programmes

• Communications and information programmes
  
• Committee for Public Diplomacy (CPD)
  

Science for Peace and Security Programme

• Science for Peace and Security

Research and Technology

• NATO Research and Technology Organisation
  

Standardization

• Standardization