Energy in the military after the NATO summit meeting in Chicago

Abstract

As many as five official documents were published during the Chicago NATO Summit, which took place 20-21 May 2012, starting with the Declaration on Afghanistan and milestones of NATO anti-terrorist policy and ending with the final Chicago Summit Declaration. In general, all documents show an effort by the Alliance to change and to apply management and planning systems to modern security realities. Simply put, even if the Alliance is not pursuing any big operations after 2014 (i.e. after removing a big part of its forces from Afghanistan), it is expected to be ready to carry out more complicated tasks than only territorial defence of member states. What will be the significance of the energy factor for planning such NATO activity?