France and Germany combined to block moves to send Patriot missiles and other Nato hardware to defend Turkey in the event of war. |
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Collaboration between the two laboratories was funded by a NATO collaborative research grant. |
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The Italian army has installed anti-aircraft missile batteries around Rome, and Nato is sending a surveillance plane to overfly the city. |
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This provides their air force with capabilities designed for interoperability within the NATO environment. |
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Of course, NATO knows that we have these dummies, but cannot tell a dummy from a real rocket. |
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Similarly, when NATO forces intervened in Kosovo, many in the international community supported the action. |
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The author cites an absence of Baltic military capability as another NATO obstacle. |
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A victorious Nato would ultimately emerge as a strengthened and invigorated alliance. |
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The explosives were hidden inside a sock and police also found several maps pinpointing sensitive targets, including a nearby Nato base. |
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In recent years, Bulgaria proved to be a loyal and staunch ally to the US, which was further deepened with our full-fledged NATO membership. |
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We aren't missing NATO, a few battalions of paras and mech infantry would be nice, but they won't change much. |
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Unlike Nato, it never had standing forces that could be committed in the event of conflict. |
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During his NATO days, the studious soldier struck many officers as a showboat. |
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From the very beginning, France was in favour of the enlargement of NATO to reunify Europe. |
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The simplification of identities into news-friendly sound-bites throughout the NATO bombing campaign often further marginalises minority groups. |
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Italy's membership of NATO will remain the cornerstone of the country's security and defence policy. |
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This frontier with Belarus was now set to become the eastern frontier of Nato itself. |
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Looking for Western cash, wider global influence, and reassurance about Nato expansionism, he could not have been more cooperative. |
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He should press our NATO allies to open training centers in their countries. |
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The UN is not going to commit forces to be killed as occupiers, nor is NATO coming to save us. |
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Unfortunately, Reigart's hands are tied by Admiral Piquet, a French NATO officer who shadily puts a halt to Reigart's rescue operations. |
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We're using NATO as a clearing house for information for individual countries. |
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There were internecine struggles within NATO, knowledge of which adds to our understanding of the complexity of the Cold War. |
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Under the previous bipolar world order, NATO stood as a counter-pole to the military arm of the Eastern bloc, the Warsaw Pact. |
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They also discussed opportunities for the modernisation of the Bulgarian military industrial complex in compliance with NATO standards. |
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After all, NATO had declared their intention of bombing only strategic military targets. |
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Even as the full enormity of the attack continued to sink in, Nato and the UN Security Council were falling in behind the US line. |
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Military action, especially a Nato assault, must be the option of last resort. |
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From the 300 projectiles which NATO has fired so far, only four have hit something of substance. |
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The package deal also abolished the Allied High Commission in Germany, ended the occupation statute, and admitted Federal Germany to Nato. |
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Hopes of cementing the recent rapprochement between Nato allies, Greece and Turkey, have been set back. |
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There is full political, parliamentarian and public consensus on EU and NATO membership in Bulgaria, Purvanov said. |
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Greece has once again reaffirmed its strong support for Bulgaria's accession to NATO and the European Union. |
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Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards. |
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Once the child was brought to Kabul, Canadian doctors went to work, taking him first to a German field hospital at the NATO brigade headquarters. |
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These are capable of refuelling Navy and NATO aircraft, which use a probe and drogue system instead of a boom and receptacle. |
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A further 18 per cent thought that providing air corridors for NATO aircraft was sufficient. |
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During the conflict in Bosnia in the mid-1990s, NATO deployed 60,000 troops, equivalent to one soldier for every 66 Bosnians. |
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The NATO Frigate Helicopter can be armed with anti-submarine torpedoes, air-to-surface missiles and air-to-air missiles. |
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He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. |
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Now it seems to be blowing cold on the missile shield, looks hell-bent on creating a European army and looks like it's abandoning Nato. |
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Our NATO allies, Brits and Poles excepted, have left us to stew in our own juice. |
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When they pulled out of NATO 40 years ago Secretary of State Dean Rusk had a bitterly caustic response. |
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The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces. |
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The Eastern expansion of NATO is another disputed issue between Europe and the United States. |
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And forget about that talk that all the retired four-star general and former NATO boss wants is the veep nomination. |
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A few days later, Turkey officially approached its other NATO partners with a request for more help. |
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Clark outlines the time-sensitive and painstaking negotiations required to ensure an executable plan for the Nato peacekeeping force. |
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We saw that the NATO members added their resolve to the resolve of the United States. |
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It has been a strong supporter of United States hegemony, and therefore also of the NATO alliance. |
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Sandown-class minehunter HMS Pembroke is due to return to Portsmouth today after a deployment to the Mediterranean on NATO duty. |
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To get around local sensitivities and Greek Law, the US troops will be operating as part of a NATO force. |
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They have so far left 22 dead and hundreds injured, including dozens of UN police and Nato troops. |
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By late September, NATO seeks to gather 3,300 weapons voluntarily surrendered by the rebel National Liberation Army. |
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As the sergeant explained, all Lithuanian officers are required to learn at least one NATO language. |
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As part of their primary mission, NATO fighter pilots sit on continuous alert, ready to intercept and identify uninvited aircraft. |
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It seems more plausible that this was not an attempt to put spine in the United Nations and NATO, but to discredit them. |
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The Bedford, a NATO battleship armed to the teeth, is on patrol in the North Atlantic when it receives two guests via helicopter. |
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He pointed out that Russia doesn't really need to join NATO because it possesses an arsenal of nuclear weapons. |
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Violations of Estonian airspace ended suddenly when NATO airplanes started to patrol Estonian airspace. |
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Where once Nato was about European protection, is it not now becoming the cuckoo in the nest of European ambitions? |
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At the NATO summit this week the president will announce the pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next summer. |
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You may well see units coming from a number of smaller NATO countries. |
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America is assured of the active assistance of its EU and NATO partners. |
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If these officials are telling the truth, they gave in because they believed NATO was about to destroy urban Serbia and slaughter the civilian population. |
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Mighty NATO rains down bombs and bullets on Gaddafi's puny forces, but can't score a knockout. |
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While ragtag fighters duked it out on the ground, an elite crew of NATO planes ran the show from the sky. |
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France acquired its own nuclear weapons and could assume that NATO would blunt an attack from the east even after US forces and bases had been removed from its territory. |
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During his commandership the relations between the Albanian Authorities and NATO headquarters have been excellent ones, especially in the military domain. |
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Despite visible warning signs, cattle are still pastured on these hills once targeted by NATO planes, and this farmer says he is little concerned about any possible danger. |
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Operation Essential Harvest primarily came about as an initiative by European NATO members, who urged action to prevent a further destabilisation of Macedonia. |
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So why should it surprise us that Nato and the UN thought the best thing for Kosovo would be first to partition Serbia and Kosovo, second to partition the towns within Kosovo? |
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Although there are more NATO troops in Afghanistan conducting more missions than ever before, non-combatant deaths are down. |
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This means Washington must take a critical look at NATO and the United Nations, neither of which reflects America's true singularity as the world's only superpower. |
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It took more than a dozen years for the Afghan and NATO forces to really understand each other, but all that will soon be history. |
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For the first time NATO nations agreed, without a formal UN resolution, to use military force to solve a growing humanitarian crisis within a sovereign state's boundaries. |
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Last weekend former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called for a nationwide referendum on NATO membership. |
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In Afghanistan there is a NATO consensus that withdrawal is not an option and that more men and materiel will need to be deployed. |
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In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War. |
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Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community. |
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Bulgaria and the other six countries that are about to join NATO are no longer discussed as invitees, but more as members of the Alliance, Svinarov said. |
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The statement after the emergency NATO meeting was a toothless collection of platitudes. |
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However, sources close to him say they believe the government alleged that he was betraying details of planned NATO airstrikes to the opposition leadership. |
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Instead, the NATO alphabet assigns code words to the letters of the English.... Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Metro Nectar Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo etc. |
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You had the mad-dog colonel in his crazy uniform up against a righteous uprising with NATO jets flying overhead. |
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So far Russia has been able to stymie further detente with Nato by delaying promised agreements on military co-operation and by threatening the arms control process. |
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Plus, read Caitlin Dickson on Chicago's lockdown ahead of this weekend's NATO summit. |
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Plus, read Caitlin Dickson on Chicago's NATO lockdown and Howard Kurtz talks to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. |
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There are four neutrals in the current Union of 15 but the percentage will drop considerably after enlargement with six neutrals to the other 19, most of them NATO members. |
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The NATO air campaign that ended the kosovo war in 1999 deployed 1,000 aircraft and took only six weeks to achieve its objectives. |
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Similar scenes were observed at Nato headquarters across town. |
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Nato also has dispatched seven frigates, a destroyer, and an auxiliary oiler to the Mediterranean to take the place of American naval assets there. |
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Instead this hate-fueled game of kabuki continues, and the Pentagon is denied a new leader with a NATO summit just days away. |
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But once NATO leaves next year, the Taliban will surely crack down on women like her, writes Janine di Giovanni. |
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Backed by NATO solidarity and economic sanctions with teeth, it just might isolate Putin enough that he backs off. |
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If NATO withdraws, those forces will almost certainly sweep into Kabul and precipitate another protracted civil war. |
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In 2011, irrespective of ground conditions, the NATO clock will go into reverse sweep. |
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The United States and NATO were implicated more deeply, directly and intractably in Afghanistan than they had ever been in Bosnia. |
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The disputes have been major stumbling blocks for Croatia's accession into both NATO and the European Union. |
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All sides agreed that it was brought down by a Buk antiaircraft missile, also known as a SA-17 Grizzly in NATO terminology. |
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The material was a vital source of intelligence on the Soviet bloc for many years during the Cold War and was only declassified by Nato 10 years ago. |
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Turkey, a NATO member and European Union aspirant, has a long history of jailing journalists and dissenters. |
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The Taliban leadership also was balking at opening a political process that NATO quite rightly demands must be Afghan led. |
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So Captain Sherpa locally and NATO nationally have a vast job on their hands, which means you'll see this for years to come, foreign soldiers on Afghan streets. |
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As combat operations in Afghanistan wind down, so too does the main driver of NATO defense cooperation. |
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Others fired into buildings already wrecked either by NATO airstrikes last year or by the bombardment of recent days. |
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Membership in NATO has helped correct these defects of statecraft and government, although much work remains once a nation is included in the alliance. |
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Such countries may not bulk large in the Nato range-finder but, without them, generalised conclusions about Christian-Muslim conflict are suspect. |
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America's 18 Nato allies stated last night that attacks could be considered an attack on the whole alliance if it turned out they were directed from abroad. |
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Franco-American institutional rivalry led to the initial dispatch of two naval forces to the Adriatic, one under Nato and one under WEU, each commanded by Italian admirals. |
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The armed forces of NATO members have also been working with their counterparts in the Russian military, on and off, for years. |
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Recently, the role has been expanded, asking for NATO troops to sally forth and actively pursue badmashes, bandits and holdover terrorists elsewhere. |
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The NATO and EU Department is incorporate in the Foreign Department. |
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Today overflights by NATO aircraft are allowed for the purpose of cargo and arms deliveries along the network of air corridors connecting NATO and US military bases. |
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One is Dmitry Rogozin, the former ambassador to NATO and current deputy prime minister. |
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Yet that should not stop NATO from using its resources to dissuade further Russian aggression, Volker said. |
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The quest for dominance of the Ukraine, either by Russia or NATO has been going on for a long time now. |
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After two decades of dwindling influence, NATO is refreshed and energized by the growing threat on its eastern flank. |
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For face-saving purposes, I suggested that the capitulation could be to NATO, rather than other Libyans. |
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Nato and European Union anti-piracy missions have been deployed to repel attacks and give safe passage to merchant and humanitarian shipping traffic. |
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France wants to lead the effort jointly with Britain, but the U.K., also gun-shy after the Iraq war, backs the NATO tack. |
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Former NATO commander James Stavridis, now dean of the fletcher School, takes much the same view. |
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In what was seen by many activists as a line in the sand, the party's national assembly came out strongly against leadership plans to ditch its traditional opposition to Nato. |
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How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy? |
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Over the ten weeks of the conflict, NATO aircraft flew over 38,000 combat missions. |
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Few states knew of the NATO nuclear sharing arrangements at that time, and they were not challenged. |
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In Istanbul, NATO launched the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative with four Persian Gulf nations. |
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It was the first NATO summit to be held in a country that had been part of the Soviet Union. |
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The issue of Georgian and Ukrainian membership in NATO prompted harsh criticism from Russia, as did NATO plans for a missile defence system. |
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On June 15, 2016, NATO officially recognized cyberwarfare as an operational domain of war, just like land, sea and aerial warfare. |
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This means that any cyber attack on NATO members can trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. |
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Following the lead of its member nations, NATO began to award a service medal, the NATO Medal, for these operations. |
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On 2 December 2015, NATO Foreign Ministers decided to invite Montenegro to start accession talks to become the 29th member of the Alliance. |
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He parried the matter well on Monday, at the NATO press conference. |
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Buchanan saw the enlargement of NATO as the ultimate manifestation of America's unwise hegemonist vision. |
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Yet the argument that NATO must expand rapidly to save tottering Eastern European democracies was and is far from compelling. |
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A new NATO 3D radar became operational Wednesday morning at Medina in southern Hungary, the country's Defense Minister Csaba Hende announced. |
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They occasionally grab a bit of territory that isn't covered by a Nato guarantee, but they dare not go any further. |
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Bombshelter would ultimately become the first line of cyberdefense for the US military and its NATO allies. |
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The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing. |
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The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the OECD and the World Trade Organization. |
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The Royal Navy is also a key element of the British contribution to NATO, with a number of assets allocated to NATO tasks at any time. |
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The Royal Navy contributes to standing NATO formations and maintains forces as part of the NATO Response Force. |
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Britain itself was now just one part of the NATO military alliance in which the Commonwealth had no role apart from Canada. |
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The Conservative Party upholds the view that NATO should remain the most important security alliance for the United Kingdom. |
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It wants to see the UK's Army turned into a home defence force, and has pledged to take the UK out of NATO unilaterally. |
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The USAF is trying to convince NATO partners who can afford the conversions to contribute to funding for those that cannot. |
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Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics. |
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Military alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact are another forum through which influence is exercised. |
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It is nonetheless assumed that NATO members will aid the attacked member militarily. |
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Also, aircraft marshalling signals were standardized, so that any NATO aircraft could land at any NATO base. |
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Other standards such as the NATO phonetic alphabet have made their way beyond NATO into civilian use. |
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At this time, NATO could call on about fifteen ready divisions in Central Europe, and another ten in Italy and Scandinavia. |
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In 1954, the Soviet Union suggested that it should join NATO to preserve peace in Europe. |
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The NATO countries, fearing that the Soviet Union's motive was to weaken the alliance, ultimately rejected this proposal. |
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On 17 December 1954, the North Atlantic Council approved MC 48, a key document in the evolution of NATO nuclear thought. |
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The treaty applies globally to specified territories whereas NATO is restricted under its article 6 to operations north of the Tropic of Cancer. |
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Several countries have diplomatic missions to NATO through embassies in Belgium. |
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Until France rejoined NATO, it was not represented on the Defence Planning Committee, and this led to conflicts between it and NATO members. |
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Warships that capture pirates have no jurisdiction to try them, and NATO does not have a detention policy in place. |
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These battle groups will operate outside of NATO and within the European defense initiative framework. |
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Polish military doctrine reflects the same defensive nature as that of its NATO partners. |
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Furthermore, the British Government and NATO do not recognise advisory opinion of the ICJ, as interpreter of IHL and referred to by Sands et al. |
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The other NATO members refused to sell oil they received from Arab nations to Britain or France. |
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All member countries of the WEU were also members of both NATO and the European Union. |
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Associate membership was created to include the European countries that were members of NATO but not of the European Union. |
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Bush wanted to make NATO more of a political than a military alliance, Thatcher, spoke out for the importance of the military role. |
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Britain's economic situation was precarious, and most of NATO was reluctant to cut trade ties. |
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In May 2012, NATO leaders endorsed an exit strategy for withdrawing their forces. |
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On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended combat operations in Afghanistan and transferred full security responsibility to the Afghan government. |
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Further NATO operations included the Battle of Panjwaii, Operation Mountain Fury and Operation Falcon Summit. |
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On 13 July 2008, a coordinated Taliban attack was launched on a remote NATO base at Wanat in Kunar province. |
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In November and December 2008, multiple incidents of major theft, robbery, and arson attacks afflicted NATO supply convoys in Pakistan. |
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Beginning in May 2010 NATO special forces began to concentrate on operations to capture or kill specific Taliban leaders. |
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In retaliation for the strike, Pakistan closed the Torkham ground border crossing to NATO supply convoys for an unspecified period. |
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After the Torkham border closing, Pakistani Taliban attacked NATO convoys, killing several drivers and destroying around 100 tankers. |
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Pakistan blocked NATO supply lines and ordered Americans to leave Shamsi Airfield. |
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On 28 December 2014 NATO officially ended combat operations in a ceremony held in Kabul. |
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Attempts to build a credible Afghan police force were faltering badly, according to NATO officials. |
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Majorities in 7 out of 12 NATO member countries said troops should be withdrawn as soon as possible. |
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The Royal Marines have close links with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, with whom they conduct NATO exercises throughout the year. |
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In 2011, Qatar joined NATO operations in Libya and reportedly armed Libyan opposition groups. |
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Among other effects, the Korean War galvanised NATO to develop a military structure. |
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The unity of NATO was breached early in its history, with a crisis occurring during Charles de Gaulle's presidency of France from 1958 onwards. |
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It was these meetings which were shaping what was to be the peace plan to be discussed during a period of planned NATO occupation of Kosovo. |
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The Rambouillet talks began on 6 February 1999, with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana negotiating with both sides. |
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The international monitors from the OSCE withdrew on 22 March, for fear of the monitors' safety ahead of the anticipated NATO bombing campaign. |
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With the exception of Greece, all NATO members were involved to some degree. |
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In March 2014, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk reiterated the government's stance that Ukraine is not seeking NATO membership. |
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Following the military campaign, the involvement of Russian peacekeepers proved to be tense and challenging to the NATO Kosovo force. |
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The Russians expected to have an independent sector of Kosovo, only to be unhappily surprised with the prospect of operating under NATO command. |
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Eventually a deal was struck whereby Russian forces operated as a unit of KFOR but not under the NATO command structure. |
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Thus, few members of the Yugoslav public expected NATO intervention, instead thinking that a diplomatic agreement would be reached. |
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Privately NATO European members were divided about the aims and necessity of the war. |
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Yugoslavia claimed that NATO attacks caused between 1,200 and 5,700 civilian casualties. |
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They were the only NATO fatalities during the war, according to NATO official statements. |
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In 2001, the Yugoslav authorities claimed 462 soldiers were killed and 299 wounded by NATO airstrikes. |
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Later, in 2013, Serbia claimed that 1,008 Yugoslav soldiers and policemen had been killed by NATO bombing. |
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At the end of war, NATO officially claimed that they had destroyed 93 Yugoslav tanks. |
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After the death of Muammar Gaddafi on 20 October 2011, it was announced that the NATO mission would end on 31 October. |
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The total number of sorties flown by NATO numbered more than 26,000, an average of 120 sorties per day. |
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The United States and Western Europe established the NATO alliance and later the Soviet Union and Central Europe established the Warsaw Pact. |
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It debated its role in world affairs and joined the United Nations in 1945, NATO in 1949, where it became a close ally of the United States. |
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The nation formally became a member of NATO on 30 March 1949, amid domestic controversy and riots. |
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The IDF, created at the request of NATO, came into existence when the United States signed an agreement to provide for the defense of Iceland. |
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The IDF also consisted of civilian Icelanders and military members of other NATO nations. |
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Since May 2008, NATO nations have periodically deployed fighters to patrol Icelandic airspace under the Icelandic Air Policing mission. |
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Iceland has also participated in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. |
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On 13 September, for the first time ever, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. |
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In December 2014, ISAF encasing its colors, and Resolute Support began as the NATO operation in Afghanistan. |
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Operation Active Endeavour is a naval operation of NATO started in October 2001 in response to the 11 September attacks. |
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In the following months, NATO took a broad range of measures to respond to the threat of terrorism. |
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Early in the Cold War era, NATO and the Warsaw Pact were created by the United States and The Soviet Union, respectively. |
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The Dutch military was therefore part of the NATO strength in Cold War Europe, deploying its army to several bases in Germany. |
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Once a refueling point for plane convoys to Europe during World War II, CFB Goose Bay is now operated as a NATO tactical flight training site. |
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The EU and NATO offered a guarantee of this, and the EU was also seen as vital to ensuring the economic success of those countries. |
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Belgium is also a founding member of the Eurozone, NATO, OECD and WTO, and a part of the trilateral Benelux Union. |
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Belgium joined NATO as a founding member and formed the Benelux group of nations with the Netherlands and Luxembourg. |
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However the integration of the armed forces into NATO did not begin until after the Korean War. |
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The towed array is the mainstay of NATO submarine detection systems, as it reduces the flow noise heard by operators. |
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France has also gradually but fully reintegrated into NATO and has since participated in most NATO sponsored wars. |
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In modern times the Italian Navy, being a member of the EU and NATO, has taken part in many coalition peacekeeping operations around the world. |
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On 30 May 1982 Spain joined NATO, following a referendum after a strong social opposition. |
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As a member of NATO since 1982, Spain has established itself as a participant in multilateral international security activities. |
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The Soviet Union planned to use its Spetsnaz special forces in attacks on NATO airfields in the event of conflict. |
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The Soviet FACs prompted a NATO response, which became more intense after the sinking of Eilat. |
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In addition many ships of NATO countries also trained and frequented at Portland Harbour. |
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Since then, fighter jets of NATO members are deployed in Zokniai airport and provide safety for the Baltic airspace. |
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All other countries have expressed a desire to join the EU or NATO at some point in the future. |
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Luxembourg also lacks an air force, though the 17 NATO AWACS aeroplanes are, for convenience, registered as aircraft of Luxembourg. |
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Today, most countries west of Russia belong to the NATO military alliance, along with the United States. |
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Germany was reunited, Europe's integration deepened, and both NATO and the EU expanded to the east. |
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In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War. |
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It was later agreed that the question of joining NATO should be answered by a national referendum at some point in the future. |
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Rome is the seat of the European Olympic Committee and of the NATO Defense College. |
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In 1952, Greece joined NATO, reinforcing its membership in the Western Bloc of the Cold War. |
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Brussels is now host to the headquarters of NATO and is the de facto capital of the European Union. |
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The headquarters of NATO are located in Brussels, and the headquarters of SHAPE near Mons. |
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The Warsaw Treaty Organization claimed it needed to balance the 'threat' posed by NATO, thus justifying the Cold War arms race. |
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Throughout the 1970s Carter badgered the NATO allies to rearm. |
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No longer does anyone mention NATO, the EU, the economy, the wahhabists etc. |
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On Monday, a NATO warplane twice attacked a train in Yugoslavia in an effort to knock out a bridge. |
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He added that it exposed the calibre of forces that Nato was able deploy. |
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On December 13, an American soldier was killed in an attack carried out on a NATO military base near Qandahar, southern Afghanistan. |
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The way out for Bosnia is to join NATO and the EU, which will lead to better economic situation, Reeker added. |
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Atlantist enthusiast Russian President Dmitri Medvedev was responsible for the success of UN Resolution 1973 allowing the NATO bombing of Libya. |
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Botswanan midfielder Ofentse Nato, 24, has also joined Kolkata from South Africa's Mpumalanga Black Aces. |
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He said that the Serbians might not be able to hit NATO's planes in the air, but they could hit the NATO collaborators on the ground. |
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Nadeem Mumtaz QureshiTwo Pakistani political parties are leading protest sit-ins on the roads that are used to supply NATO troops in Afghanistan. |
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Under the memorandum, Bulgaria is to provide assistance to Montenegro for its EU and NATO accession. |
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His policies include printing money, state ownership of major industries, unilateral disarmament and quitting NATO and that's just for starters. |
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The same year, US A-10 Thunderbolts strafed NATO forces in Afghanistan, killing Canadian Private Mark Anthony Graham. |
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Their aim is to secure a network of NATO strongpoints between the two towns. |
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Gaddafi described freedom-seeking-rebels as rats, and NATO forces as colonialists in his address to the people. |
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They said the DPC will continue the protest against the decision of reopening NATO supply line. |
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He was a renowned expert in tactical nuclear warfare, NATO, and political-military long range planning. |
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While NATO and the United States expressed disappointment and concern, they did not overdramatize the Russian move. |
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Has anybody noticed paranoiac Putin who thinks that Nato is going to invade Russia and march through Red Square. |
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The final chapter addresses hypersonic flow, assessing the accuracy of numerical simulation through NATO RTO hypersonic research findings. |
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Additionally, Norway has contributed in several missions in contexts of the United Nations, NATO, and the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union. |
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Romania has also made clear since the late 1990s that it supports NATO and EU membership for the democratic former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. |
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During the 2008 Bucharest summit, NATO declared that Ukraine would eventually become a member of NATO when it meets the criteria for the accession. |
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During the Cold War, the Adriatic Sea became the southernmost flank of the Iron Curtain as Italy joined NATO, while the Warsaw Pact established bases in Albania. |
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The long lasting wars resulted in a United Nations intervention and NATO ground and air forces took action against Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. |
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The predecessors of the European Union were not devised as a military alliance because NATO was largely seen as appropriate and sufficient for defence purposes. |
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Since 1949, a number of NATO Summits have been held in the city. |
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Many countries were prompted to align themselves with the nations that would later form either NATO or the Warsaw Pact, though other movements would also emerge. |
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Like any alliance, NATO is ultimately governed by its 28 member states. |
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Post Second World War period, the North Sea, bounded entirely by NATO allies became completely peaceful whilst significant Cold War confrontation began in the Baltic. |
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After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995, but declined NATO membership, as well as Eurozone membership following a referendum. |
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Both the European Union and NATO are headquartered in Belgium. |
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Few members spend more than two percent of their gross domestic product on defence, with the United States accounting for three quarters of NATO defense spending. |
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One of the first squadrons of the recently established Federal Germany Navy was formed at Lossiemouth in May 1958 under the NATO cooperative policy. |
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The concept of First World originated during the Cold War and included countries that were generally aligned with NATO and opposed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
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Iceland has the smallest population of any NATO member and is the only one with no standing army, with the lightly armed coast guard in charge of defence. |
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Security Council to approve NATO military strikes, such as the action against Serbia in 1999, while France and some others claimed that the alliance needed UN approval. |
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Portugal has since reintroduced checks several times along the border with Spain, during the UEFA Euro 2004 championships and when Portugal hosted the NATO 2010 Lisbon summit. |
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Mohammed, who like many Afghans uses only one name, says he abruptly left his village in Nad Ali in January amid Taliban shelling and NATO counterstrokes. |
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By the end of the operation, NATO had conducted over 3,000 hailings at sea and almost 300 boardings for inspection, with 11 vessels denied transit to their next port of call. |
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At its peak, the operation involved more than 8,000 servicemen and women, 21 NATO ships in the Mediterranean and more than 250 aircraft of all types. |
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On June 24, the US House voted against Joint Resolution 68, which would have authorized continued US military involvement in the NATO campaign for up to one year. |
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No military operations were conducted by NATO during the Cold War. |
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On 10 June, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticized some of the NATO member nations for their efforts, or lack thereof, to participate in the intervention in Libya. |
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A aIf there is a war between NATO and Russia, we would have to wear gas masks,a the people of Destructive Creaton told the Bulgarian OFFNews website. |
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The decision was made after meetings of NATO members to resolve disagreements over whether military operations in Libya should include attacks on ground forces. |
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A variety of weapons were used by the Yugoslav security forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, NATO only operated aircraft and naval units during the conflict. |
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As a result of the Kosovo War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation created a second NATO medal, the NATO Medal for Kosovo Service, an international military decoration. |
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Chinese leaders called the NATO campaign a dangerous precedent of naked aggression, a new form of colonialism, and an aggressive war groundless in morality or law. |
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Though NATO leaders gave assurances that the system was not targeting Russia, both presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev criticized it as a threat. |
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If the taliban continue attacks on NAtO forces during a ceasefire called to help other Afghans, Pashtuns and Muslims, they will lose support as a result. |
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By the start of April, the conflict appeared little closer to a resolution and NATO countries began to seriously consider conducting ground operations in Kosovo. |
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At the start of May, a NATO aircraft attacked an Albanian refugee convoy, believing it was a Yugoslav military convoy, killing around fifty people. |
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New NATO structures were also formed while old ones were abolished. |
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However, when retreating from Kosovo after NATO intervention, Yugoslav units appeared combat effective with high morale and displaying large holdings of undamaged equipment. |
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The third operation, the first major deployment under Blair, was in Kosovo in 1999, where British forces led a NATO intervention in the Kosovo War. |
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An intervention was also deemed to be politically and militarily impractical given the British military's involvement with NATO operations in Yugoslavia. |
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This was reflected in the Warsaw Pact and NATO military alliances, respectively, as most of Europe became aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union. |
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Under the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, permanent deployment will end by 2019, although some training will still be undertaken with regards to NATO capability. |
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Similarly, under the auspices of NATO, such expeditionary forces are designed to meet Britain's obligations to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and other NATO operations. |
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By the summer US officials were doubting whether NATO had a future. |
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