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The Multinational Publications Electronic Library (MPEL) is a series of unclassified,
maritime
Maritime may refer to:
Geography
* Maritime Alps, a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps
* Maritime Region, a region in Togo
* Maritime Southeast Asia
* The Maritimes, the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Princ ...
operational and procedural publications that provide nations with common doctrine, techniques, training, procedures and information for planning and conducting operations and exercises with and between nontraditional partners.
The MPEL CD-ROM is distributed by the
Navy Warfare Development Command
The Navy Warfare Development Command is a command of the United States Navy for the generation and development of innovations in concepts and doctrine for enhanced operational level maritime capability and integration in joint and coalition ac ...
to non-
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...
coalition partners. These publications are available through a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsor to all nations. The
NATO Standardization Office
The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) (former NATO Standardization Agency, NSA; French language, French: ''Bureau OTAN de normalisation'') is a NATO agency created in 1951 to handle standardization activities for NATO. The NSA was formed throug ...
(NSO) is the office within NATO that administers the Multinational Publication (MP) program.