Dear Visitors,

Thanks again for your continuing participation!

As you know, our online discussions follow the themes of the Seminars held by NATO’s Group of Experts on the developing Strategic Concept. The fourth such Seminar will take place on 23 February, in Washington, DC. Hosted by Supreme Allied Command Transformation and the US National Defense University, the subject of the Seminar will be the Alliance’s transformation of its structure, forces, and capabilities.

Accordingly, our next topic for discussions is, “What changes in structures, forces and capabilities are required for NATO’s transformation into an Alliance that can deal successfully with 21^st century challenges?”

Please share your thoughts, concerns or questions. We will try to respond to your ideas and summarize the discussion with another live video session.

As background, please consider reading the most recent two-part edition of NATO Review, available at www.nato.int/review. The edition examined issues related to the new Strategic Concept, the Comprehensive Approach and NATO’s transformation.

Let us know what you think!

The Moderating Team

Dear Visitor,

With great interest we follow your valuable and inspiring exchange of views on NATO’s future. Your comments are periodically submitted to the group of experts for their consideration.

To further increase the debate’s diversity, we are bringing onboard a number of senior NATO colleagues. They will escape their offices to join you in a live video session on 15 October, 15.30 pm (Brussels time).

Our first invitees are Michael Ruehle (Policy Planning Unit/Private Office of the Secretary General), Steve Sturm (Defence Policy and Planning Division), and Dr Stefanie Babst (Public Diplomacy Division) as moderator.

The session will be held on the eve of the first key seminar on NATO’s new Strategic Concept in Luxembourg. The seminar will discuss the Alliance’s core tasks and functions, a topic that has been debated extensively in our forum. We will therefore build on your comments in this live video session. For those who have not yet participated, it’s not too late. Tune in to the discussions on 15 October.

The video of the discussion is a available here.

The moderating team

Dear Visitors,

Thank you for participating in the discussion on NATO’s core tasks. We would now like to steer the discussion towards the second theme: The political dimension of NATO’s operations.

What should NATO’s operations look like in the future?
How should NATO make decisions on its operations?
How should it work with other international organizations?
How can it define common strategies, and improve strategic communication?

The topic will be running for approximately two weeks, until the third discussion theme will be announced.

For now, please tailor your contributions towards this topic. It will help us in feeding your input into the expert deliberations on the new Strategic Concept.

We are keen to hear your thoughts and ideas on this new theme.

What would you like to ask the Group of Experts? Send us your question and it could be selected for use in a video interview with Madeleine Albright, Chair of the Group of Experts. The video interview will take place on September 4 and will appear on NATO’s website soon after.
Submit your question by sending it to: mailbox.revieweditor@hq.nato.int. Please make the question as clear and concise as possible and send it before September 2.

Dear Visitors,

It is our pleasure to launch the first thematic discussion topic: NATO’s Core Tasks and Functions – the meaning of collective defence and deterrence in today’s environment. More specifically, how should we confront a broader spectrum of threats to our populations, such as terrorism, cyber-attacks or energy security. What should NATO’s role be in disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation? And what is the meaning of the Washington Treaty’s Article V, the collective defence clause of the Alliance, in the new security environment?

Share with us your ideas, analysis or recommendations on what you consider should be NATO’s core principles, priorities and tasks in the future. The topic will be running for approximately two weeks, until a new discussion theme will be announced.

To facilitate the flow of discussion and present your inputs in a coherent report to our Secretary General, the Group of 12 Experts and other stakeholders, we kindly ask you to tailor your contributions at this time towards this topic only.

Thank you. We are looking forward to your constructive inputs.