NATO Bureaucratic & Infrastructure Transformation for the 21st Century

Abstract

The NATO bureaucratic and military infrastructure was designed to provide for European (and North Atlantic) stability through collective defense, against the back drop of a Soviet Union military that was not standing down in size following the Cold War. In fact, during the late l940's the Soviet Union was showing clear and dramatic expansionist tendencies in the region. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War the raison d'tre for the North Atlantic Alliance has vanished. To survive politically (and thus economically) for the long term in the 2lst Century NATO must significantly and realistically change its mission and structure to include reductions in the Brussels bureaucracy and elimination of the system of permanent regional military commands known as the Integrated Command Structure. The future NATO peacetime focus should be primarily on developing and exercising standardized command and control systems and procedures and less on combat systems hard" are commonality and supportability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 22, 1998
Accession Number
ADA443461

Entities

People

  • John M. Chandler

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Cis
  • Cold War
  • Combat Readiness
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • European Union
  • Infrastructure
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Quick Reaction Force
  • Security
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control