Maintained by the National Defense University Library for international military education outreach, MERLN provides direct access to defense-related US policy statements on selected key topics.

MERLN electronic resources include:

• Military Policy Awareness Links (MiPALs), which provide access to current U.S. Government policy statements on selected key topics, accompanied by additional resources that analyze the topic
• Digital collections of full-text papers, lectures, and legislation
• Links to worldwide military library catalogs
• Links to military journals and publications
• Access (password controlled) to full text ejournals and reference tools