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News from the Front:

NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAG) for Commanders and Staff

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Front Cover: U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, and 

Slovenian Armed Forces conduct a convoy during vehicle recovery training as part of exercise Lipizzaner V at Pocek Range 

in Postonja, Slovenia, Mar. 13, 2019. Lipizzaner is a combined squad-level training exercise in preparation for platoon 

evaluation, and to validate battalion-level deployment procedures. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army 

Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or 

Central Commands' areas of responsibility. (U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo).
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Introduction: This news from the front is the result of a CALL study analyzing recent 

exercises in Europe that determined common interoperability areas for improvement. 

When operating with a European based multinational force, what are the NATO 

Standardization Agreements (STANAG) for interoperability? After identifying areas for 

improvement, CALL conducted a review of NATO STANAGs and publications to 

address those issues. This publication informs the force of NATO STANAGs to consider 

enabling success in the next multinational exercise.

Multinational operations is the future of the US Army and a driving force for meeting the 

challenges with near peer adversaries on the European continent. The new Field 

Manual (FM) 3.0, Operations, provides the doctrine describing the fundamental 

principles and overarching guidance for conducting operations as part of a joint force. It 

is the U.S. foundation setting the base for tactics, techniques and procedure across 

U.S. Army doctrine and supports the Army Campaign plan.

In addition to FM 3.0, the Army Campaign Plan strengthens alliance and partnership 

efforts, addresses conditions to win in a multinational theater, and supports efforts to 

improve multinational interoperability. Multinational exercises are a means to train, test, 

and improve alliance and partnership interoperability. Multinational exercises are not a 

new concept for Western Europe.

NATO was established on April 4, 1949 by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty to 

provide security against the Soviet Union with founding member nations of Belgium, 

Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, 

Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Today there are 29

nations1 with the newest member Montenegro joining in 2017. Return of forces to 

Germany (REFORGER) exercises were the capstone NATO exercise to test 

multinational interoperability with the first one in 1968 and the last major REFORGER 

exercise in 1993 primarily with Germany based units. 

In order to facilitate interoperability between U.S. forces and NATO partners, NATO 

developed standardization agreements (STANAGs) and doctrinal publications to 

provide a common set of guidance for all NATO nations. Currently there are 1,184 

STANAGs and doctrinal publications. 

1 The member states of NATO are:

Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, 

Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, 

Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, 

United Kingdom, United States.
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CALL conducted an analysis of four recent exercises in the European theater from 

AARs to determine interoperability areas for improvement. The analysis identified 25

areas for improvement.

A search was conducted of potential NATO STANAGs and publications to aid in 

mitigating the 25 interoperability issues in the European theater. From the current 

NATO publications, 36 STANAGs, and 38 NATO publications were selected to address 

the identified interoperability issues. These documents, sorted by warfighting function,

are listed by document number, title, with a short synopsis of the content. Due to the 

sensitivity of NATO documents, access to the selected documents must be requested 

through the NATO Standardization Office (https://nso.nato.int/nso/) which is a NATO 

controlled site. The process to request access to the restricted NATO site can be found 

in Chapter 1. 

Once access has been granted, view the STANAG list in Chapter 2 to decide which 

STANAGs are important to the unit’s mission. Many of the STANAGs are agreements 

with little instructive information on how to implement the STANAG. They do however 

refer to a detailed NATO publication. Chapter 3 is the list of NATO publications 

supporting the STANAGs in chapter 2.

This publication focuses on a small sample of NATO publications that are available to 

the warfighter. Many more documents are available on the NATO Standardization Office 

website. After access has been granted by NATO, additional publications, besides

those in Chapter 2 and 3 can be found. The number assigned to the NATO product is 

the chronological order in which the document was created. Using the ctrl+f and key 

word(s) is a suggested means to search the NATO Standardization website.
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Chapter 1: Request NATO restricted access

https://nso.nato.int

What is the NATO Standardization Office (NSO) Website?

The NSO is a web-based system that serves as the official source of NATO 

standardization documents, non-NATO standards, and repository of standards-related 

information. It also provides users with a tool to search for and retrieve ratification 

responses. 

The NSO is accessible through two platforms. The NSO public and protected website 

are a means for maximizing the distribution of NATO standardization documents. 

The public site is at https://nso.nato.int/nso/ and will provide a list of STANAGS and 

Publications; however, many of the STANAG links when clicked will return a “This 

document is not publicly available.” 

For segregated data and information that is not publically releasable on the internet, 

access must be requested as depicted in the screen shot above. Click the “Request 

Access” link and follow the prompts. You must request access to view the NATO 

documents which are protected from public view.
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Chapter 2: NATO STANAGs

NATO STANAGs

Mission Command

Publication # Title Summary

2180 ED 2

Allied joint doctrine for nonarticle 5 crisis response 

operations 

Recognizes the sensitivity to political considerations, 

and the prominent role of non-military entities, both 

governmental and non-governmental.

2199 ED 3 Command and control of 

Allied land forces 

Provides a common basis for understanding 

command and control doctrine applicable to NATO 

land forces including decision-making, targeting 

process, staff structure, duties, and responsibilities, 

and liaison duties.

2248 ED 2 NATO handbook of land 

operations terminology

Builds mutual understanding among the Alliance 

members and other multinational partners for a 

compilation of definitions for an expanded set of 

terms that focus on land operations. 

2525 Ed 1

Allied doctrine for 

communications and 

information systems

Contributes to interoperability by providing a 

common basis for the identification of operational 

user needs and for the design and procurement of 

systems, structures and equipment related to CIS. 

3700 ED 8 Allied joint doctrine for air 

and space operations

Provides the NATO forces with a common doctrine 

on standard procedures for the employment of air 

and space capabilities in joint air operations. 

Enhances the employment and interoperability of 

NATO air resources in joint air operations and 

enhance effective operational planning.

4312 Ed 2

Interoperability of low-level 

ground based air defense 

surveillance, command, 

and control systems

Defines information exchange requirements for the 

interoperability of NATO low-level ground-based air 

defense command, control and information 

systems before the establishment of an interface. It 

is intended to achieve interfaces between the lowlevel ground-based air defense command centers 

of each nation in message requirements and 

passage of information.

4643 Ed 1 

Tactical communications 

(TACOMS) phase 1 

connection oriented 

network protocols 

Participating nations agree to use the standards 

specified in this STANAG for interoperability of their 

tactical communications systems. TACOMS is 

based on transparency of user applications and 

does not generally specify these applications. 

However, in order to obtain user interoperability on 

a minimum set of services, TACOMS specifies a 

set of common user services for voice, video and 

transparent data.
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4644 ED 1 

Tactical communications 

(TACOMS) Phase 1 

connectionless network 

protocols 

This STANAG is implemented by a nation when the 

tactical system in that nation's forces is compliant 

with other NATO systems. The naming strategy will 

be based on the hierarchical organization of the 

deployment. Four levels have been identified in the 

hierarchy: Corps, Divisions, Brigades and Battle 

Groups.

4720 ED 1

NATO standard for air 

traffic management safety 

management system

Standardizes the air traffic Safety Management 

Systems (SMS) used in NATO led deployed 

operations. The principles of SMS shall apply to all 

safety-focused organizations regulated by NATO, 

the air traffic management committee (ATMC) and 

its subordinate working groups, panels and teams.

5067 ED 1

Standard for 

interconnection of IPv4 

networks at mission secret 

and unclassified security 

levels.

Defines the interface for network interconnections 

based on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) 

between NATO nations or between NATO and a 

nation. Identifies areas that must be mutually 

negotiated to achieve network interconnection. The 

interconnection is intended for a static non-mobile 

environment.

5068 ED 1 Secure communications 

interoperability protocol 

Standardizes a set of network agnostic 

specifications that assures that the equipment sets 

up communications in a unified manner, after which 

a secure communication between the terminals can 

be negotiated and established. 

Intelligence

2518 ED 2 Allied joint doctrine for 

information operations 

Provides guidance and direction for integrating 

information operations into the planning, conduct 

and assessment of operations.

3377 ED 6 Air reconnaissance 

intelligence report forms

Standardizes and consolidates air reconnaissance 

report forms for reporting and presenting 

intelligence information derived from air 

reconnaissance and sensor imagery.

3596 ED 6

Air reconnaissance 

requesting and targeting 

reporting guide

Serves as a reference for the requesting, planning 

and reporting of intelligence from air 

reconnaissance. This agreement is appropriate to 

all sensor types and platforms. 

4567 ED 3

NATO implementation of 

unified protection against 

electromagnetic 

environmental effects 

Lists recommended practices regarding a unified 

approach to the protection and hardening of all 

NATO military platforms, systems and equipment 

(hardware) against electromagnetic environmental 

effects (E3) caused by the plethora of 

electromagnetic environments (EMEs) that these 

platforms, systems and equipment are subjected 

to.

4676 ED 1

NATO intelligence, 

surveillance and 

reconnaissance tracking 

standard

Promotes interoperability for the exchange of 

tracking data among NATO intelligence, 

surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems. 

Recommends a set of best practices and technical 

implementation guidance for managing track data. 
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4777 ED 1

NATO intelligence, 

surveillance and 

reconnaissance 

architecture

Recommends a top-level architecture which will 

provide a context and structure for the STANAGs 

under the purview of the joint capability group on 

intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and 

other NATO interoperability initiatives. 

5535 ED 1

Air surveillance and ground 

based Sensor information 

exchange

Defines the detection, collection, fusion, 

identification and dissemination of air surveillance 

data gathered from (active and passive) military 

and civilian ground-based sensors needed to 

support a single standard, ensuring interoperability.

Fires

2245 ED 1

Field artillery and fire 

support data 

interoperability 

Artillery systems cooperation activities (ASCA) 

interface definition and to outline the procedures to 

be used for configuration management. Fire control 

messaging standard which consists of message 

formatting rules, message structure, message 

content and handling rules for the data which has 

been transmitted.

2432 ED 1 

Artillery procedure for 

automatic data processing 

system interoperability 

Describes both the automatic transmission of 

formatted messages and the use of voice 

communications between national systems and 

supports all levels of conflict and operations 

although primarily designed for warfighting.

2484 Ed 3 NATO fire support doctrine

Establishes the common doctrine and instructions 

governing allied fire support in the framework of 

joint fire support (JFS).

2618 ED 1 Allied doctrine for ground 

based air defense

Provides guidance to tactical and operational staffs 

within a joint force command, as well as to the joint 

force component commands, on planning and 

conducting ground-based air defense (GBAD) in a 

theatre of operations to protect deployed NATO 

military forces and assets from hostile air attack, 

and to eliminate or minimize incidents, including 

fratricides. 

4119 ED 2

Adoption of a standard 

cannon artillery firing table 

format

Standardizes requirements for the development 

and publication of tabular firing tables for artillery 

and appropriate mortar cartridges in both complete 

and abridged formats.

4425 ED 2

Procedure to determine the 

degree of interchangeability 

of NATO indirect fire 

ammunition

Agreement standardizes a step-by-step procedure 

for the determination of the degree of 

interchangeability of NATO indirect fire 

ammunition. 
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Sustainment

2034 ED 7 NATO standard for mutual 

logistic assistance 

Standardize NATO armed forces procedures 

applicable to the request, issue, receipt, 

reimbursement and documentation for logistic 

support in the form of supplies and services 

provided in international logistic assistance in 

peace, operations, crisis or conflict.

2228 ED 3 Allied joint doctrine for 

medical support

Enhances interoperability and operational 

effectiveness in the delivery of medical support to 

Allied operations through reduction of duplication 

of effort among NATO nations and operational 

partners in the medical domain.

2406 ED 7 Land force logistic doctrine

Describes principles, concepts, and guidelines 

that apply to logistical support to military Land 

Forces in preparation for deployment to, 

sustainment in and redeployment from an area of 

operations. 

2481 ED 2 Medical information 

collection and reporting

Standardizes the collection and reporting of 

medical information by NATO nations and forces.

2542 ED 2 Allied joint medical 

planning doctrine

Improves coordination and cooperation among 

NATO nations and operational partners in the 

domain of medical support to allied operations by 

adjusting the introduced medical planning 

procedures to the current operational-level 

planning publications. 

2552 ED 3 Guideline for a 

multinational medical unit

Focuses on role 3 multinational medical units 

(MMU). It has become apparent that MMU will 

more often than not be the optimal choice in 

providing health support to operations, especially 

given NATO’s current and near future operational 

tempo.

2562 ED 1 Medical communications 

and information systems 

Describes how medical communications and 

information systems can support medical 

command and control, serve as an interface for 

the exchange of health information and allow 

clinical health data to be transmitted between 

nations.

3204 ED 8 Aeromedical evacuation 

Describes timely and safe aeromedical 

evacuation of sick and wounded personnel from 

one member nation by aeromedical personnel 

and/or aircraft of another member nation. 

7112 ED 2

Recommended medical 

equipment for aeromedical 

evacuation

Standardizes the quality of the medical materials 

required to ensure that aeromedical evacuation 

(AE) of casualties can be performed securely, 

from a medical and an aeronautical standpoint, 

during forward, tactical or strategic AE, in order to 

facilitate the exchange of comparable information 

between nations. 
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Protection

2238 ED 3 Allied joint doctrine for 

military engineering

Describes the fundamental aspects of military 

engineering and provides guidance for planning 

and conduct in support of joint operations. 

2296 ED 2 Allied joint doctrine for 

military police

Relevant to the alliance and it is intended to 

provide insight and guidance concerning Military 

Policing for commanders, staff and planners when 

designing and conducting MP operations and 

missions.

2451 ED 5 Allied joint doctrine for 

CBRN Defense

Enables nations to conduct joint operations with 

coordinated chemical, biological, radiological and 

nuclear defense. 
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Chapter 3. NATO Publications

NATO Publications

Mission Command

Publication # Title Summary

AAP-03 

Directive for the production, 

maintenance and 

management of NATO 

standardization

Introduces new tools, additional clarity and 

flexibility for the production and maintenance of 

NATO standardization documents. Provides advice 

and detailed guidance on several aspects which 

have been identified as critical to effective and 

efficient standardization within the Alliance.

AAP-06 NATO glossary of terms 

and definitions

The body of NATO Agreed terminology changes 

constantly. All terminological entries are followed 

by a date, (year, month, and day), indicating when 

they became NATO agreed and inserted in AAP06. Since this NATO glossary is only published 

once a year, the user is advised to consult the 

NATO term database for the most up-to-date 

terminology.

AAP-39 NATO handbook of land 

operations terminology

Enhances mutual understanding among NATO 

members and other multinational partners in areas 

such as command and control, logistics, 

peacekeeping operations, crisis response 

operations, etc., across the entire continuum of 

operations, from peacemaking to general war. This 

handbook cannot and does not presume to 

encompass the totality of terms currently employed 

within the NATO land community. 

AAP-77 NATO terminology manual 

Addresses the elements that make up a 

terminological entry for a particular concept, such 

as terms, abbreviations and definitions, notes and 

examples. This manual does not address symbols, 

codes, formulas, icons, pictures, diagrams or other 

graphic representations, although they may appear 

in terminological entries. 

AATMP-01 NATO standard for air 

traffic management

Defines the activities, necessary organizational 

structures, accountabilities, policies and 

procedures by which safety management is 

undertaken ensuring that all safety risks have been 

identified, assessed and satisfactorily mitigated. 

Operational necessity may restrict the ability to 

totally mitigate a safety issue; however, efforts to 

mitigate any risk shall be made to ensure that the 

risk held is as low as reasonably practicable.

AComP-5068 Secure communications 

interoperability protocol 

Establishes a NATO networked enabled capability 

(NNEC) that is robust and secure and composed of 

interconnected individual national networks and a 

federation of networks such as the future mission 

networks (FMN).
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AJP-01 Allied joint doctrine

Capstone doctrine for allied joint operations. It 

explains the strategic context for such operations 

and focuses on the underlying philosophy and 

fundamentals of joint operations. Provides 

commanders and staff with a common framework 

for understanding the approach to all NATO 

operations. It also provides the principles and 

general guidance to plan and conduct campaigns 

and operations.

AJP-3

Allied joint doctrine for the 

conduct of operations

Defines purpose and coordinated actions which are 

military and contribute to a broader approach 

including non-military actions. Operations are 

conducted through the art of directing, 

coordinating, controlling and adjusting the actions 

of forces to achieve specific objectives. These 

operations normally involve capabilities provided by 

maritime, land, air, space, cyber, special operations 

forces and other functional forces. 

AJP-3.10 Allied joint doctrine for 

information operations 

Information operations doctrine is intended for 

NATO forces, and provides a useful framework for 

operations conducted by a coalition of NATO 

partners, non-NATO nations and other 

organizations. Interoperability between NATO 

nations is based upon NATO standardization 

agreements and publications. This provides 

guidance and direction for integrating info ops into 

the planning, conduct and assessment of 

operations enhancing interoperability between 

NATO nations.

AJP-3.4

Allied joint doctrine for nonarticle 5 crisis response 

operations 

Describes the fundamental principles and various 

types of operations initiated outside the mandate of 

Article 5 and highlights considerations relevant to 

the successful conduct of these operations. In 

particular, this publication recognizes the sensitivity 

to political considerations, and the prominent role 

of non-military entities, both governmental and nongovernmental. 

AJP-6

Allied doctrine for 

communications and 

information systems

Principles of a joint C2 structure that is understood 

at all levels required to facilitate the clear, timely, 

and secure distribution of guidance/orders, 

situation reports, and coordinating information. 

Because the structure of a NATO-led force will 

likely be joint and combined in nature, contributing 

capabilities to a coalition should be considered.

ATP-3.13.1

Reception, staging, and 

onward movement 

procedures

Reception staging and onward movement is the 

stage of a deployment at which deploying forces, 

consisting of personnel, equipment and materiel 

arrive in the joint operations area. Because arriving 

troops are not ready for employment, RSOM and 

Integration must take place for the forces to be 

capable of meeting the joint force commander’s 

operational requirements. 
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ATP-3.2.2 Command and control of 

allied land forces 

Provides C2 doctrine applicable to NATO land 

forces organizations. This publication includes the 

previously agreed decision-making process, 

targeting process, and the staff structure, duties, 

and responsibilities. 

ATP-3.3.2.1

Tactics, techniques and 

procedures for close air 

support and air interdiction 

Describes how CAS and AI are conducted in 

overall campaign strategy and the specific 

circumstances of the conflict. Such factors 

including but not limited to available assets, enemy 

disposition, phase of the operation, whether 

surface combat is also occurring, our degree of 

control of the air, and the need to support, or be 

supported by, surface forces.

ATP- 82 Allied doctrine for ground 

based air defense

Ground-based air defense resources are an 

integral part of the NATO integrated air and missile 

defense system and an important deployable 

option for out-of-area operations. All policy, 

conceptual, operational, and tactical aspects are 

described in this document,

Movement and Maneuver

AJP-3.2 Allied joint doctrine for land 

operations

Primary source of allied land force doctrine 

providing philosophical guidance and principles 

needed to plan and conduct land operations within 

a joint and multinational framework. Provides both 

the capstone document for land operations and a 

guide to NATO doctrine relevant to land operations. 

AJP-3.3.2 

Allied Joint doctrine for 

close air support and air 

interdiction

Describes close air support and air interdiction 

operations focused at the tactical and operational 

levels of war, targeting the fielded hostile ground 

forces and the infrastructure that directly supports 

them, and could indirectly lead to strategic effects 

by denying the enemy the ability to execute their 

ground combat strategy. 

Intelligence

AEDP-02

NATO intelligence, 

surveillance and 

reconnaissance 

interoperability

Describes the NATO intelligence, surveillance, and 

reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability architecture 

which defines how NATO and national 

reconnaissance and surveillance assets within the 

joint capability group area of responsibility will 

achieve interoperability.
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AEDP-12

NATO intelligence, 

surveillance and 

reconnaissance tracking 

standard

Delivers an initial capability to use tracking 

information to support situational awareness for 

operating in today’s dynamic warfighting 

environment. Facilitates gathering the technical 

and management experience necessary to identify 

and integrate additional sensor sources and fusion 

techniques, and to move beyond situational 

awareness into more advanced mission capabilities 

in the future.

AEP-41

NATO implementation of 

unified protection against 

electromagnetic 

environmental effects 

Describes unified approach to the protection and 

hardening of all NATO military platforms, systems 

and equipment (hardware) against electromagnetic 

environmental effects caused by the plethora of 

electromagnetic environments that these platforms, 

systems and equipment are subjected to during 

their deployment life. 

Fires

AArtyP-03

Artillery procedure for 

automatic data processing 

system interoperability 

When the automatic interface is used, all operators 

will continue to complete data fields in their national 

languages with the exception of free text entries in 

messages. The interface can support all languages 

for free text, but English is normally used. The 

supported nation should define a mutually agreed 

language for free text messages. 

AArtyP-5 NATO fire support doctrine

Provides the artillery commander and his staff a 

conceptual framework and a “common language” 

for the planning and execution of fire support within 

his concept of operations. It is not the intention to 

restrict the authority of the commander. He 

organizes the forces assigned to him to execute 

operations as he deems appropriate.

AJP-3.3.1 Allied joint doctrine for 

counter air operations

Describes counter-air operations to achieve a 

desired, or necessary level of control of the air, 

through the destruction, degradation or disruption 

of enemy aircraft and missiles, in order to allow all 

friendly forces greater freedom of action, whilst 

minimizing their vulnerability to detection and 

attack. 

AOP-29 Part 1

NATO indirect fire 

ammunition 

interchangeability 155 mm

Inventory of projectiles continues to grow. Dualpurpose improved, conventional munitions and 

projectiles with both anti-personnel and anti-armor 

mines as well as base-burn projectiles are being 

developed and will be added to the existing rocketassisted projectiles already in their inventories. The 

emphasis is increasingly on interoperability with 

more range and effectiveness on target.
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AOP-29 Part 2

NATO indirect fire 

ammunition 

interchangeability Mortar

Mortar systems are the simplest, most efficient way 

to put weight of fire on the enemy and as such are 

used in significant numbers during most 

operations. This increases the importance of 

interchangeability and the need for comprehensive 

interchangeability documentation for these 

systems. 

AOP-29 Part 3

NATO indirect fire 

ammunition 

interchangeability 105mm

The 105mm caliber artillery weapon is primarily 

used in mountain, air-mobile and airborne 

operations. Considerable numbers of 105mm 

caliber artillery weapons remain in NATO 

inventories, though many date back to the early 

fifties and are US in origin.

Sustainment

AJP-4 Allied joint logistic doctrine

Keystone NATO doctrine for the conduct of joint 

operational logistics and medical from preparation 

to termination. Builds on the principles described in 

NATO joint doctrine and it is the foundation 

doctrine for the logistic series.

ALP-4.2 Land force logistic doctrine

Focuses on providing logistical support doctrinal 

guidance for the land component command and 

subordinate formations in preparation for 

deployment to, sustainment in, and redeployment 

from, an area of operations regardless of the level 

of command across the full spectrum of conflict.

AJP-4.10 Allied joint doctrine for 

medical support

Appropriate medical support makes a major 

contribution to both force protection and morale by 

the prevention of disease, rapid evacuation and 

treatment of the sick, wounded and injured and the 

return to duty of as many individuals as possible. 

Health is a key force multiplier of fighting power. 

AJMedP-1

Allied joint medical 

planning doctrine

Outlines the military medical procedures and 

responsibilities governing the preparation, 

approval, implementation and review of operations 

plans to enable a common approach to planning 

medical operations during massive article 5 war, 

with huge numbers of casualties including potential 

CBRN casualties, to smaller, more localized 

operations such as peacekeeping and peace 

support.

AAMedP 1.1 Aeromedical evacuation 

Standardizes the terminology, procedures, training 

and equipment used in the aeromedical evacuation 

of sick and wounded personnel, in order to facilitate 

safe and timely transport of patients of one NATO 

nation by aeromedical services of any other NATO 

nation. 

AAMedP 1.20

Recommended medical 

equipment for aeromedical 

evacuation

Establishes qualitative guidelines with respect to 

the medical materials required to ensure that 

aeromedical evacuation (AE) of casualties can be 

securely, performed, during forward, tactical or 

strategic AE.
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AJMedP-5

Medical communications 

and information systems 

Describes the medical information management 

system needed at both the strategic and 

operational levels identifying emerging 

requirements. System must be able to address 

medical information management in an operational 

setting and incorporate the approach described 

within the NATO defense planning process. 

AMedP-3.2 Medical Information 

collection and reporting

Collection of relevant medical information is the 

responsibility of all personnel, but particularly 

health services personnel. This publication 

describes the standardized general MEDINFO 

report form and the hospital data sheet documents 

guiding medical information’s collection. 

AMedP-9.2 Guideline for a 

multinational medical unit

Outlines the definitions, command and control, 

jurisdiction, medical considerations, logistics and 

other support, finance, claims, security and other 

general principles concerning the responsibilities of 

participants regarding the relevant procedures, 

sustainability and multinational manning of the 

multinational medical unit.

Protection

AJP 3.8 Allied joint doctrine for CBRN defense

Plans, procedures and activities in preventing 

chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear 

incidents, protection of forces, territories and 

populations against, and recovering from 

CBRN incidents and their effects.

AJP 

3.12

Allied joint doctrine for military 

engineering

Demands for engineer support are likely to

exceed capacity so the approach to providing 

engineer support has always been inherently 

comprehensive bringing diverse resources to 

bear to achieve the mission.

AJP 

3.21 Allied joint doctrine for military police

Assists the force generation process by 

identifying the MP support capabilities 

available among NATO member nations. 

Recognizes the varying capabilities that exist 

between member nations.
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