Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (
SHAPE) is the headquarters of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's
Allied Command Operations. Since 1967 it has been located at
Casteau, north of the
Belgian city of
Mons, but it had previously been located, from 1953, at
Rocquencourt, next to
Versailles,
France. From 1951 to 2003, SHAPE was the headquarters of
Allied Command Europe, ACE. Since 2003 it has been the headquarters of
Allied Command Operations (ACO), controlling all NATO operations worldwide.