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 Concept
• 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
• 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

• NATO Defence Planning Process

Common-funded resources, budgets and financial management

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

Nuclear policy

• NATO's Nuclear forces

The economic dimension

• The Economic Directorate
• 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

NATO’s role in Afghanistan

• NATO in Afghanistan
• NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan
• The Virtual SILK Highway in Afghanistan
• NATO cooperation 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 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
• Assisting the African Union in Somalia
• Contributing to the establishment of an African stabilization force
• NATO’s assistance to the African Union for Darfur

Civil emergency operations

• Pakistan earthquake relief operation

The Alliance’s role in the fight against terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

• NATO and the fight against terrorism
• Defence against Terrorism (DAT) programme
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Missile defence
• Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC)
• Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS)
• Strategic lift capabilities
• Strategic sealift
• NATO’s role in energy security
• Environmental security

New capabilities

• Improving NATO’s capabilities
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defence Battalion (CBRN)
• Defending against cyber attacks
• The NATO Response Force
• The Rapid Deployable Corps
• Prague Capabilities Commitment (PCC) (archived)
• Alliance Ground Surveillance
• NNEC (NATO Network Enabled Capability)
• Satcom Post-2000
• Centres of Excellence

• NATO enlargement
• Membership Action Plan (MAP)

• Partnerships with non-NATO countries

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

• The Euro-Atlantic Partnership
• The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC)
• The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) (archived)
• Partnership for Peace, The -
• Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAPs)
• Partnership for Peace Planning and Review Process
• The Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism (PAP-T)
• Partnership Action Plan for Defence Institution Building (PAP-DIB)
• Partnership for Peace Status of Forces Agreement
• Partnership for Peace Trust Funds

NATO and Russia

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

NATO and Ukraine

• NATO-Ukraine relations
• NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC)

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

• Mediterranean Dialogue
• Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI)

Cooperation with countries in southeastern Europe

• The NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC)

NATO’s relations with PfP countries

• 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 -
• former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹, NATO’s relations with the
• Georgia, NATO's relations with
• Ireland, NATO’s relations with -
• Kazakhstan, NATO’s relations with -
• Kyrgyz Republic, NATO’s relations with the -
• Malta, NATO’s relations with -
• Moldova, NATO’s relations with the Republic of -
• 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, NATO's relations with

Contact countries

• NATO’s relations with Contact Countries
• Australia, NATO cooperation with -
• Japan, NATO cooperation with -
• Korea, NATO cooperation with the Republic of -
• New Zealand, NATO cooperation with -

• Comprehensive Approach
• NATO’s relations with the United Nations
• EU-NATO: 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 the 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)

• Working by committee
• The North Atlantic Council
• 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 (DPPC)
• Operations Policy Committee (OPC)
• Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD)
• Resource policy and Planning Board
• Committee on Proliferation (COP)
• Logistics Committee (LC)
• Council Operations and Exercises Committee (COEC)
• Consultation, Command and Control Board (C3B)
• Civilian Intelligence Committee (CIC)
• High Level Task Force on Conventional Arms Control (HLTF)
• Committee for Standardization (CS)
• Civil Emergency Planning Committee (CEPC)
• Air Defence Committee (ADC)
• Security Committee (SC)
• Verification Coordinating Committee (VCC)
• Archives Committee (ARC)
• Committee on Public Diplomacy (CPD)
• Air Traffic Management Committee (ATMC)

• Principal specialized organizations and agencies (currently under review)
• 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 Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) Management Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Communications and Information Systems Services Agency
• NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Hawk Management Office (archived)
• NATO Helicopter Design and Development Production and Logistics Management Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency, Organization and Board
• NATO Research and Technology Organisation
• NATO Training Group
• NATO EF2000 and Tornado Development and Logistics Management Agency (NETMA)
• Central European Pipeline Management Agency (CEPMA)
• Central Europe Pipeline Management Organization (CEPMO)
• Central Europe Pipeline Management Organization Board of Directors (CEPMO BoD)
• NATO Standardization Agency

Air defence

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

Airborne early warning

• AWACS: NATO’s eyes 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

• 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)
• 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
• NATO Defense College
• Exercises

Electronic warfare

• NATO Electronic Warfare Advisory Committee (NEWAC)

Logistics

• Logistics
• Logistics Committee
• Supply
• Maintenance
• Movement and transportation
• NATO Petroleum Committee
• Pipeline System, NATO -
• Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS)
• Infrastructure

Medical support

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

Meteorology

• Military Committee Meteorological Group (MCMG)

Military oceanography

• The Military Oceanography (MILOC) Group

Public Diplomacy communications and information programmes

• Communications and information programmes
• The Committee for Public Diplomacy

Scientific and environmental programmes

• Science for Peace and Security

Research and Technology

• NATO Research and Technology Organisation

Standardization

• Standardization
• NATO Standards