Affordable defense capabilities for future NATO missions.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Reorganization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Military policy.

European Union countries--Armed Forces.

European Union countries.

Administrative agencies--Reorganization.

Armed Forces.

Military policy.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 29 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2010.

Summary:

The new NATO Strategic Concept offers an important opportunity to strengthen efforts to reform and modernize NATO institutionally and develop new defense capabilities for the Alliance. To achieve these aims, NATO must begin a separate transformational process to assess current military capabilities and pursue future requirements over a 5-10 year period. The goal should be to develop specific sets of initiatives and reforms for approval by Heads of State and Government at the Lisbon Summit in November 2010. This process should be informed by the development of the new Strategic Concept and run parallel to it. In a rapidly changing security environment, postponing such a process until after the Strategic Concept is completed would increase risks for the Alliance. This report is designed to stimulate that parallel process. Given declining defense resources in a time of recession, the case for new defense capabilities and reforms must be compelling. New measures must take full advantage of efficiencies, common approaches, national specialties, and existing capacity. They also must tie to specific NATO missions that flow from the emerging Strategic Concept. And they must be approved and supported by Alliance Heads of State and Government.

Notes:

"A National Defense University Special Report."

"February 23, 2010."

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (NDU, viewed September 12, 2017).

OCLC:

713220794