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The article presents the complex issue of threats faced by NATO. Changes in the international security environment result in many dangers NATO cannot ignore, including conventional threats. In the globalized world, non-state organizations and structures pose a potential threat to transportation, energy supply networks and critical infrastructure. In this situation, one should not exclude the potential threat of conventional armed conflict. NATO continues to see growth in the proliferation of weapons and their means of delivery as asource of threat. Terrorism and cyberattacks pose the specific type of modern asymmetric threats to NATO. The development of new technologies and the use of space for military purposes is also very important for the security of NATO. Multi-faceted issue of threat is presented from the perspective of a number of examples illustrating the complexity of the problem.