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