About NATO.COM

AI-Powered Strategic Intelligence from Open Sources

What is NATO.COM?

NATO.COM (NATO Defense Intelligence) is an independent defense and security intelligence aggregator that uses artificial intelligence to collect, analyze, and summarize news from open sources around the world. We provide daily briefings on strategic defense and security topics.

We are not affiliated with NATO, any government, or military organization. NATO.COM is an independent research project focused on making defense news more accessible through AI-powered analysis.

100% US AI for Content Processing

All content analysis on NATO.COM is powered exclusively by US-developed AI models running locally on our infrastructure. For defense and security intelligence applications, supply chain integrity matters.

Model	Developer	Origin	Purpose
Gemma 2 27B	Google	USA	Article summarization, topic extraction
Phi-3 14B	Microsoft	USA	NATO relevance scoring, editorial decisions
Nomic Embed Text	Nomic AI	USA	Semantic similarity, article clustering

Prediction Arena: AI Bias Research

The Prediction Arena is a separate experimental feature designed to study potential cultural bias in AI models. Unlike main content processing (US AI only), the Arena deliberately includes models from different origins to compare their perspectives on geopolitical events.

Arena Competitors (Research Only)

Western: LLaMA 3 (Meta), Gemma 2 (Google)
Eastern: Qwen 2.5 (Alibaba), DeepSeek R1 (DeepSeek)

Dual-Judge Scoring: Nomic Embed (USA) vs BGE-M3 (China/BAAI)

Foreign AI models are used solely for comparative research. The Arena does not influence main site content.

Data Sources

All content is aggregated from publicly available RSS feeds and news sources. We do not have access to classified or non-public information. Our sources include:

NATO official news and press releases
U.S. Department of Defense
Defense ministry feeds from NATO member states
Major defense and security media outlets
Think tank publications

How It Works

NATO.COM operates through several automated processes:

Feed Ingestion: Multiple times daily, we fetch and parse RSS feeds from configured sources.
AI Analysis: Each article is analyzed by US-developed AI models to extract summaries, topics, countries, and relevance scores.
Daily Briefing: High-importance articles are synthesized into a concise daily brief.
GTI Calculation: The Global Tension Index is computed based on article volume, topic clustering, and semantic intensity.

Privacy

NATO.COM does not collect personal information from visitors. All AI processing happens locally on our servers. We do not use cookies for tracking or sell any user data.

Technology Stack

NATO.COM is built with:

Backend: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy
AI Inference: Ollama (local inference engine)
Database: PostgreSQL
Frontend: Jinja2 templates, vanilla JavaScript

Contact & Feedback

NATO.COM is a solo research project. For questions or feedback, please reach out through GitHub or the contact information in the repository.