The paper presents & analyses the comparative results of a questionnaire on attitudes of the Croatian public (N=3,420) & officers of the Croatian Armed Forces (N=596) with regard to the accession to NATO of the Republic of Croatia, conducted in 2008. Accession to NATO was identified as the most favorable foreign political option for national security by a relative majority of the citizens (37%) & by more than three quarters of the officers (76.1%). Support for joining NATO in a hypothetical referendum would be given by almost twice as many citizens (42.9%) in relation to the number of those opposing it (23.1%), & almost four fifths of the officers (78.3%) would vote for accession. Public expectations about the possible consequences of the country's accession to NATO are mostly favorable with regard to the majority of the military security, political & economic consequences. An exception is the expected increased exposure of the country to terrorist attacks (shared by the officers) & possible limitation of the political autonomy of the state. Mostly negative consequences are also expected by the public at the local social & environmental levels. The estimates of the officers are more positive in relation to the majority of the expected military security, political & economic consequences, while, unlike the public, they do not expect any negative consequences on the social & environmental levels. On the whole, the results indicate a relative conformity between the public's orientation & the orientation of the officers, although the officers more prominently support the accession to NATO. Adapted from the source document.