NATO Defense Against Terrorism

NATO Defense Against Terrorism The objective of this study is to examine NATO's defense against terrorism and specifically to do so through examination of a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Financing of Terrorism -- Suicide Bombing" presented at the Center of Excellence -- Defense Against Terrorism: Ankara International Workshop May 24-25, 2007 and prepared by Nick Ridley, associate researcher, John Grieve Centre, London Metropolitan University. NATO'S Counter-Terrorism Report The NATO publication entitled "Countering Terrorism" relates that fighting terrorism is on the top of NATO's agenda.

The 'Strategic Concept' and the 'Lisbon Summit Declaration' clearly state that terrorism is a threat that is real and formidable in terms of the Alliance's safety and security and the safety and security of the NATO Alliance members. NATO reports that terrorism by nature is "multifaceted" and because of this NATO acknowledges that this is a challenge that the international community had to address in cooperation. The threats of terrorism are stated to be such that are "political, operational, conceptual, military, technological and scientific" in nature.

NATO reports the creation of the 'Emergency Security Challenges Division" within the headquarters of NATO in August 2010 toward dealing with "a growing range of non-traditional risks and challenges" and this is stated to be inclusive of terrorism. (NATO, 2013, p.1) NATO reports a new 'Policy Guidelines on Counter-Terrorism', which were endorsed at the Chicago Summit in May 2012.

The Alliance reports contribution to the fight of the international community against terrorism in several specific ways: (1) NATO is a permanent transatlantic consultation forum, capable of transforming discussions into collective decisions and action; (2) NATO has at its disposal unique military and civilian capabilities that can contribute to fighting terrorism or managing the consequences of an attack; and (3) NATO cooperates as part of a very large network of partnerships involving other states and international organizations.

(NATO, 2013, p.1) Evaluation of the PowerPoint Presentation Evaluation of the PowerPoint presentation finds many spelling and formatting errors, which is frustrating and irritating to the viewer. The following problems were noted with the PowerPoint Presentation: (1) The presentation is not clear on what it intends to accomplish in terms of the information that is being relayed to the view; (2) The PowerPoint presentation utilizes abbreviations that the layman unfamiliar with NATO abbreviations does not understand. Specifically what is 'MILF'? (3) The word storage is misspelled as is the word 'components' on slide 7.

(4) The sections are jumbled and disorganized on the majority of the slides. (5) On slide 12 there should be arrows pointing the opposite direction and in the first line, spacing is off. (6) On slide thirteen the bullet points are missing online three and text is misaligned in the bottom half of the slide. (7) On slide 14 the first sentence begins with & #8230; and is not capitalized and spacing is off and while someone is being quoted quotation marks are missing on all of the quotations on.