For 36 years, NATO and the Warsaw Treaty never directly waged war against each other in Europe ; the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies implemented strategic policies aimed at the containment of each other in Europe, while working and fighting for influence within the wider Cold War on the international stage.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002 in which the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with allied Afghan military forces, and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and non-NATO forces attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.

As he left the Pentagon, Perry listed what he thought were his most important accomplishments: establishing effective working relationships with U. S. military leaders ; improving the lot of the military, especially enlisted men and women ; managing the military drawdown ; instituting important acquisition reforms ; developing close relationships with many foreign defense ministers ; effectively employing military strength and resources in Bosnia, Haiti, Korea, and the Persian Gulf area ; dramatically reducing the nuclear legacy of the Cold War ; and promoting the Partnership for Peace within NATO.

The reason for this diverse mix of nationalities is the presence of expatriate workers and their families working in and around Brussels, usually either for the European Union, NATO or for multinational corporations.

In this series he's an operative working for a branch of NATO.

Felix Leiter, James Bond's CIA ally and friend, played a part in six of the Fleming novels ; he is introduced in Casino Royale as being thin, tall, about thirty-five years old and a former member of the U. S. Marine Corps who was working with the Joint Intelligence Staff of NATO.

Kurt Hahn had been invited to address the NATO Defence College where he saw former enemies from several nations working together towards a common goal.

The next step in this development may be shown by a current NATO working group which is investigating the possible future use of Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles ( UAVs ) for casualty evacuation.

In the Big Finish Productions audio drama UNIT: The Wasting ( 2005 ), Commodore Sullivan ( who is working with NATO ) is called on by the Brigadier for a favour but does not have a speaking part.

The United States Air Force 426th Air Base Squadron provides support to 220 U. S. service members and their families working in support of NATO ’ s Joint Warfare Center.

Special agreements exist which facilitate fire support operations within NATO and the ABCA quadripartite working group, which includes American, British, Canadian and Australian military contingents.

Finally, " alliance " was chosen because of its association with the NATO alliance which is much revered in Kosovo for its intervention in the Kosovo War of 1999, and also because of it evokes the idea of working together to achieve one's aims.

* Nato's role in a new European security order ( The future of NATO GPIS working paper ) ( 1995 )

In the administration of President George H. W. Bush, Ross was director of the United States State Department's Policy Planning Staff, working on U. S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control, and the 1991 Gulf War.

In the 1960s Randell was " involved in the original " NATO Software Engineering conferences " in 1968 on Software engineering, at the time he was working at IBM in the very secret Project Y and then ACS super-computer projects.

They work to achieve these goals by creating US-funded programs to aid war victims in Iraq and Afghanistan and are working with NATO to develop compensation funds.

Harry was said to be working with NATO and doing something " hush-hush at Porton Down ".

The character returns to assist the fourth Doctor in the Past Doctor Adventures novels System Shock and Millennium Shock by Justin Richards and be mentioned in the Fifth Doctor serial Mawdryn Undead in which he is said to be working for NATO.

Capellen has prospered over the past 40 years, first as a result of the establishment of NAMSA with personnel from all the NATO countries, then as a residential area for those working in Luxembourg City.

The group wants to disband NATO and " strengthen the OSCE ".

The group states that during the 1940s, Freedom House supported the Marshall Plan and the establishment of NATO.

After the U. S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three journalists and led to a diplomatic row between the U. S. and People ’ s Republic of China, NATO and various Western media claimed the building might have been targeted because the office of the Chinese military attaché was being used by Arkan to communicate and transmit messages to his paramilitary group, the Tigers, in Kosovo.

Following the album release, the group went on the Occupied Europe NATO Tour 1994-95, resulting in the live and video album of the same name, which featured a selection of recordings from the two-year tour, including the performance in Sarajevo on the date of the signing of the Dayton agreement.

In addition to its anti-American and anti-capitalist agenda, the group was also opposed to Turkey and NATO.

The group argued in its communiques that it wanted to rid Greece of U. S. bases, to remove the Turkish military from Cyprus, and to sever Greece's ties to NATO and the European Union.

Rather speaking about his experiences in his 61 years of journalism before a group of NATO commanders at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan in July 2011.

Consequently, he was dropped from the NATO " group of 12 " committee that had been drafting NATO's new mission statement.

He also helped found AGARD, the NATO aerodynamics research oversight group ( 1951 ), the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences ( 1956 ), the International Academy of Astronautics ( 1960 ), and the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels ( 1956 ).

Canada, the United States, and the European countries among this group formed a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, to oppose the Eastern Bloc and their military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, which was composed of the wartime Allies Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, the ex-Axis powers of Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary and Romania as well as Albania.

It has been alleged by Iran that Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has met Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi while he was visiting Afghanistan in 2008 as NATO secretary general amid Iranian and some western press accusations that CIA is backing the terrorist group.

This led to a split within the party, with the first group supporting her resignation and the larger second faction concluding that the NATO bombing was to be immediately terminated if the Serbs stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, if Halvorsen continued as party leader.

However, Milutinović was the leader of the Yugoslavian government's negotiation group in Rambouillet in 1999, a prelude to the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia.

The hole thus created by the removal of the CAST Brigade Group was filled, to a degree, by the creation of a NATO Composite Force ( NCF ) to which Canada promised a battalion group.

Scholar Scott Atran, research director and involved in NATO group studying suicide terrorism, points out that there is no single root cause of terrorism.

NATO, released October 10, 1994, is an album by Slovenian industrial group Laibach, named after NATO.

) Sir Walter Walker, Commander in Chief of NATO forces in Northern Europe from 1969 to 1972, it was a voluntary group that aimed to break any planned general strike.

After the September 11, 2001, attacks, NATO for the first time invoked Article 5, which states that any attack on a member state will be considered an attack against the entire group of members.

* Kola class frigate, the NATO reporting name for a group of frigates built for the Soviet Navy in the 1950s

The Vilnius group was a group of NATO aspirant countries, created in May 2000, aiming at practical cooperation, exchange of information and lobbying for their candidacy in the NATO capitals.

If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

The NATO Council is available as an executive agency, the Standing Group as a high military authority.

Generally, however, there is an abundance of available machinery of coordination -- in NATO, in O.E.C.D., in the U.N. and elsewhere.

Even Norway, despite daily but limited manifestations against atomic arms in the heart of this northernmost capital of the alliance, is today closer to the NATO line.

But where the core of NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, `` cornerstone '' of its foreign policy, but has announced that five nuclear submarines will eventually be at NATO's disposal in European waters.

The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.

* 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7. 62 × 51 NATO AP round at a range of, though accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan tell of soldiers shot as many as seven times in the chest without penetration.

When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code-Fox Three.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999.

NATO adopted the 7. 62x51 NATO round ( which in reality is only slightly different ballistically to the. 308 Winchester and. 303 British cartridges ), along with several rifles such as the FN FAL and M14.

According to NATO, the general role of artillery is to provide fire support, which is defined as " the application of fire, coordinated with the maneuver of forces to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy.

It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6, but is not always regarded as a flag rank.

The remaining 5 % is special expenditures to NATO, branch shared expenditures, special services and civil structures, here in including running the Danish Maritime Safety Administration, Danish national rescue preparedness and the Administration of Conscientious Objectors ( Militærnægteradministrationen ).

Although not a NATO member, Egypt remains a strong military and strategic partner and is a participant in NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue forum.

Estonia is a member of UN, European Union and NATO, among others.

The military has been prepared to be more compatible with NATO, as co-operation with NATO in peacekeeping is needed, but military alliance does not have popular support.