Współpraca cywilno-wojskowa w NATO – struktury i ich funkcjonowanie
Civil-military Cooperation in NATO – Structures and Their Functioning

Summary/Abstract: NATO, apart from the basic function of the collective defense of the member states, since the early 1990s has been conducting crisis response operations – military and humanitarian – in many regions of the world, saving lives and property of people, as well ascontributing to strengthening and stabilizing international security. Both the collective defense of the Alliance member states and crisis response operations, usually conducted outside these countries, in areas often lacking fully functioning institutions and efficient infrastructure, enforce close cooperation between civil and military bodies and institutions. Forcivil-military cooperation to be effective, it must be implemented in accordance with the principles and tasks specified in the normative documents, through well-prepared and equipped CIMIC structures (forces and necessary resources) that facilitate this cooperation and ensure commanders of NATO and civilian institutions to achieve the objectives of the operations. The structures of civil-military cooperation differed depending on the type, natureand location of operations conducted by NATO. Thus, the basic question arises: how were organized and how the civil-military cooperation structures (CIMIC) functioned in selected NATO crisis response operations?This article is an attempt to answer this rather complex question, based on the analysis of available publications and normative documents as well as own reflections on this subject.

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