NATO TRANSFORMATION – CONCEPTS AND INITIATIVES ON THE TEMPORAL AXIS
NATO TRANSFORMATION – CONCEPTS AND INITIATIVES ON THE TEMPORAL AXIS

Summary/Abstract: The North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created as bulwark against a potential Soviet aggression but on its way there was needed a continuous strategic adaptation with accelerated dynamic to the conditions and features of the international security environment. Nowadays, the organization confront to increasingly diverse, complex and nonconventional series of risks and threats regarding the whole field of human action and determines the continuous positive conjunctive NATO transformation on conceptual, structural and operational levels. Concomitantly, to the political-military organization level is in course of implementation a capabilities-based planning process which is undergone in conformity with the new range of missions fulfilled by the organization from the peace support, to high intensity combat actions. Also, NATO military transformation determines the direct transformation of the member-states’ armed forces, implicitly of Romania, for the defence and security of own territories and citizens and in order to enhance the capacity to participate with capabilities to the missions assumed in the collective security framework in different parts of the world. In our paper, there are chronologically presented some of the initiatives and concepts conveyed during the NATO transformation process and we consider the Connected Forces Initiative started in 2014 represents a real step toward the operationalization of NATO capabilities for the successful development of present and future missions and an opportunity to fill in the development gaps.

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