For NATO to work properly, its members must be prepared not only to supply troops and equipment for NATO led military operations, but also to fund and sustain these operations until missions are completed.

The UK is an active and regular participant in NATO and other coalition operations.

NATO peacekeeping operations have been a stabilizing factor in the region. For example, NATO and EU diplomacy prevented ethnic conflict in Macedonia from erupting into a crisis.

NATO support to Kabul International Airport operations continues with Afghan firefighters completing training and currently on duty.

NATO has created a Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Center that brings together civilian and military expertise on crisis identification, planning, operations, reconstruction, and stabilization capabilities in ways that are explicitly designed to connect NATO headquarters in Europe to the networked world.

The Naval Forces have participated in international NATO Partnership for Peace operations and various exercises with great success.

Capitalize on institutional diversity. Because NATO and the EU share complementary priorities, both can develop mechanisms for inclusive security cooperation in peacekeeping operations.

In Afghanistan, NATO led military operations against the neo Taliban and other opponents of state building offer only a partial and temporary solution.

As they contemplate the end of their military operations, NATO members must support a political process if they truly want to stabilize Afghanistan.

Ideally, NATO should provide troops to UN sponsored operations together with forces from other regional security organizations that could be established in Latin America, Asia, or Africa.

But we must also establish an autonomous European military planning capacity, because the EU might need to lead its own operations, perhaps because NATO is unwilling to.

Under the NATO plan, ISAF would assume control of these teams in 2006, on the assumption that the need for combat operations in the south would diminish.

Certain international organisations, such as NATO and EUFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also have the mandate to conduct or support operations against persons indicted by the ICTY.

Even skeptics of NATO expansion and operations like the intervention in Libya now recognize that joint operations by member countries, operating under a UN mandate and in conjunction with regional partners, is likely to be a model for the future.

Italy deployed troops in support of UN peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Mozambique, and East Timor and provides support for NATO and UN operations in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania.

Historically, UXOs have posed significant hazards to NATO and Alliance forces during tactical and peace keeping operations as well as yielded long term hazardous environmental conditions to civilian populations.

NATO Confidential

NATO Secret

Globalizing NATO

France s re integration into NATO is, in fact, the final stage in a process that has seen the French military play an increasingly important role in the alliance s operations.

NATO After Istanbul

NATO after Riga

The 5.56 45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO) is an intermediate cartridge developed in the United States and originally chambered in the M16 rifle.

But, apart from the common costs of an operation (usually less than 8 of the total), the ESDP uses the same funding method as NATO, which means that the bulk of the money for both ESDP and NATO led military operations comes out of the same defense pot in each member state.

We need NATO and NATO needs us in order to face common threats and challenges.

NATO Must Be Saved

The Death of NATO

The Necessity of NATO

NATO and the SCO could work together on neutralizing anti personnel mines in Afghanistan, as well as other possible types of confidence building measures, such as joint police training and counter narcotics operations.

Russia has in particular opposed its neighbors joining NATO. What is NATO against, the Russians ask?

NATO air power could have halted the Serbs, but Annan did not ask for NATO intervention.

It is a NATO member, bordering the three Caucasus republics that have NATO Individual Partnership Action Programs.

NATO soldiers die in vain.

Re Booting NATO Russia Relations

NATO, however, has stood aside.

Sarkozy s Three Way NATO Bet

NATO itself embodies that goal.

Indeed, whatever the role of bilateral cooperation, the only supranational organization capable of sustained combat operations is NATO. That umbrella can provide a basis for US support behind European leadership, as it did in Libya.

Moreover, the US learned from the Kosovo experience of war by committee to distrust NATO as a place to run operations, and now Afghanistan highlights the organization s limitations as a mechanism for generating force contributions.

NATO has established a special NATO Georgian Commission to help coordinate allied support for Georgia s post conflict reconstruction.

NATO officials persuasively argued that their collective defense commitment could not be delegated to a non NATO member.

We want a cooperative NATO Russia relationship that produces concrete results and draws NATO and Russia closer together.

Afghanistan and the Future of NATO

NATO expansion is off the table.

Re Setting the NATO Russia Relationship