NATO basics

• NATO’s purpose
• Founding treaty
• Member countries

Fundamental security tasks

• Collective defence – Article 5
• Crisis management
• Partnerships: projecting stability through cooperation
• Strategic Concepts

Opening up of Alliance membership

• Enlargement
• Membership Action Plan (MAP)

Policy and decision-making

• Consensus decision-making at NATO
• The consultation process and Article 4
• Summit meetings
• Defence Planning Process
• Deterrence and defence
• NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and forces
• Committees
• North Atlantic Council (NAC)
• Nuclear Planning Group (NPG)
• Military Committee (MC)
• Defence Planning Committee (DPC) (Archived)

Financial resources and transparency

• Funding NATO
• Transparency and accountability
• Information on defence expenditures
• Public disclosure of NATO information

Source: NATO

By

Karl William