Beyond NATO

Building Neighbors' Stability Key to Maintaining Alliance Hybrid methods of warfare including deception, media manipulation, sabotage and other nonmilitary tactics, while not new, are increasingly hard to counter given their speed, scale and intensity, which are facilitated by rapid technological change and global interconnectivity. Not a New Concept From NATO expansion following the end of the Cold War to the 21-state Partnership for Peace program dedicated to creating trust between NATO and other states in Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO has a long history of seeking to promote stability regionally to ensure the alliance's security by diminishing threats to peace and strengthening security relationships between NATO and nonmember countries in the Euro-Atlantic area. Building an effective platform to project stability requires the alliance to establish a common understanding of the threat environment, including the implications of competition in the nontraditional hybrid and competition space, share information broadly across the European Union, NATO and NATO regional states, and build capacity and resilience capabilities to meet hybrid challenges.