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Key documents of the major Euro-Atlantic organizations and their members indicate that they “will contribute to the creation of an integrated security structure of mutually complementary and reinforcing organizations that would be able to prevent an emergence of a global conflict in a long-term outlook.” Therefore, the research question of this paper is what does the “complementary process” consist of and, most importantly, how does the admission of new members to the North Atlantic Alliance complement the capabilities of the organization? The paper studies the concept of complementarities as a relationship between resources and capabilities. Furthermore, it identifies two groups of countries according to the nature of transformation of the armed forces and their past experience with statehood during the Cold War, and explains how the new NATO members have complemented the current capabilities of the alliance, namely by distributing resources efficiently, reducing the armed forces and, as their economies continue to grow, allocating additional funding for defense. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]