Securitologia No 2/2017 Eleni Daniiloudi-Zielińska Department of Command and Maritime Operations Naval Academy in Gdynia, Poland Magdalena El Ghamari Centre for Research on Social and Economic Risks Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland International Security and Defense – The Example of NATO Operations Abstract Today’s crisis response operations carried out outside the country are located in the dynamic global environment. Their multinational character resulted in a revaluation of views on security and defense, in the context of the use and operation of the armed forces. A large number of crisis response operations also contributed to the number of entities involved in the military and non-military tasks. Changes in the global se- curity environment, the interplay between policy and foreign countries mean that the strategy of the Armed Forces can not be equated only with the art of distribution and use of military means. What's more, there is no one correct way of planning activities of the Armed Forces operating in an alliance or a coalition of multinational opera- tions. Globalization has imposed certain ways of conduct and respond to threats. Keywords: NATO operations, military structure, North Atlantic Council DOI 10.4467/24497436SCU.17.009.9787 ISSN: 1898-4509 e-ISSN: 2449-7436 online pdf E-mail contact to the Authors:
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[email protected]. 82 Eleni Daniiloudi-Zielińska, Magdalena El Ghamari Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 and so straddles the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras. Despite an important political dimension, during the first of these two periods it was NATO’s standing as a military alliance (in- deed, the Alliance) dedicated to the common defense that defined its purpose and activ- ities.