A first Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous System Workshop (MESAS 2014) was organized by NATO Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence in Rome 2014. The main findings were related to the missing ontol‐ ogies for AS deployment, a legal and cultural gap in the AS deployment and the request to launch the cross panel project under NATO Science and Technology Organization aimed at the AS d...

NATO BATTLEFIELD STRATEGY FOR THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE Patrick Joseph Geary Master of Arts in Political Science University of Richmond 1987 Dr. Arthur B. Gunlicks Thesis Director Although we live in a time in which strategies using nuclear weapons dominate the attention of most defense analysts, there are reasons why more attention should be paid to conventional defense strate...

A NATO évtizedeken át az államszövetségek közötti, akár nukleáris háborúig eszkalálódó hagyományos konfliktusra koncentrált. E paradigmába nehezen illeszthető be a hibrid hadviselés, mert támadó háborús küszöb alatt tartja műveleteit. kihívásokat modellező NATO-gyakorlatok megmutatták, hogy szövetségnek meg kell találnia alatti intézkedések lehetőségét is. Alapvető változásokra van szükség Szöv...

For more than twenty years, NATO engaged in security assistance Afghanistan. The engagement represented a colossal politico-military investment regime renewal. return of the Taliban to power 2021 defines defeat for NATO, we argue. Defeat followed part from NATO’s strategy deficit: alliance did not adequately focus on Afghanistan’s political fundamentals; it committed ‘comprehensive approach’ ca...

In reaction to the Ukraine crisis, NATO allies decided at the September 2014 Summit in Wales on the most fundamental military adaptation of the Alliance since the end of the Cold War. The objective is a large scale reinforcement and reorganisation of defence capabilities. Collective defence has thereby been reinstated as the core task of NATO, requiring considerable political, military and fina...

In the late 1950s the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made a major effort to fund collaborative research between its member states. One of the first initiatives following the establishment of the alliance's Science Committee was the creation of a sub-group devoted to marine science: the Sub-committee on Oceanographic Research.This paper explores the history of this organization, chart...