As hybrid attacks on our societies, infrastructure and digital networks occur more frequently, Allies are stepping up their resilience efforts. At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, Allies agreed to account for up to 1,5% of GDP on defence- and security-related spending, including to boost civil preparedness and resilience. Resilience ensures that critical civilian services such as energy, food, water and healthcare remain available to support our societies and military at all times.
NATO's Baseline Requirements for Resilience provide support for governments to improve civil-military cooperation and strengthen resilience as part of a 'whole-of-society' approach. By publicly releasing the Baseline Requirements for the first time, NATO is broadening its resilience community and building a common understanding of our resilience efforts.
NATO's Secretary General, Mark Rutte, underscored the value of this work: "Individual Allied nations, and NATO as a whole, must be able to resist, respond to and quickly recover from shocks and disruptions. That is what resilience is all about."
