Even in the initial stages of NATO establishment, the way in which the necessary resources foe sustainment of the defence posture in front of Soviet threat was one of the most important topic. The ...complexity associated with this objective was even more challenging in the multinational context and common desire to reach an integrated character. From this perspective, the creation of a defence planning system was the adequate solution for managing the Cold War security challenges, while consolidating the interaction between the agreed objectives and their national implementation. Gradually, the defence planning system become one of the main instruments through which NATO could translate in capability targets and defence plans the objectives assumed by successive Strategic Concepts since the establishment of this organisation. Although, fundamental parameters were agreed during Cold War, their relevance is going beyond the temporal framework of this episode. Today, defence planning system incorporates typologies and procedures agreed half of a century ago demonstrating thus, the viability of thinking and the conceptual premises that were for structuring this system.
