NATO Delivers: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
This exhibit featured over 90 Citizen Soldier themed color photographs from NATO current and former operations including NATO’s support to the humanitarian relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and NATO peace and security operations throughout the world.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an active and leading contribution to peace and security on the international stage. Through its crisis-management operations, the Alliance demonstrates both its willingness to act as a positive stabilizing force for change and its capacity to meet the security challenges of the 21st century.
Since its first major peace-support operation in the Balkans in the early 1990s, the tempo and diversity of NATO operations have increased. NATO has been and is engaged in missions that cover the full spectrum of crisis-management operations – from combat and peacekeeping, to training and logistics support, to surveillance and humanitarian relief. Today, just under 140,000 military personnel are engaged in NATO missions around the world, successfully managing complex ground, air and naval operations in different environments. NATO forces are currently operating in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Mediterranean, and off the Horn of Africa. Additional forces are held at high reradiness to be deployed on short notice if needed.