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.

According to a 2005 poll, most of Finns at that point were reluctant to join NATO.

According to the developers, the timeline leading to the Twilight War has been completely re-written, and will no longer focus on a Cold War confrontation between NATO, the Soviet Union and China.

According to DoD documents, “ The MIL-STD-188 series may be based on, or make reference to, Joint Technical Architecture, American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) standards, International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T ) recommendations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Standardization Agreements ( STANAG ), and other standards wherever applicable .”

(...) The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene ..." According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly " several years earlier " and according to The Sunday Times, " American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia ".

According to a Serbian government report, from January 1, 1998 to June 10, 1999 the KLA killed 988 people and kidnapped 287 ; in the period from June 10, 1999 to November 11, 2001, when NATO took control in Kosovo, 847 were reported to have been killed and 1, 154 kidnapped.

According to a NATO press release, the agreement began the ratification process in 1992.

According to Nations Online, the member countries of NATO after the Cold War included:

According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.

According to NATO, drug trafficking in Moldova is valued between $ 200 million to $ 250 million per year.

According to the new threat scenario facing Germany and its NATO allies, the Bundeswehr is currently reorganising itself.

According to the " Total National Resistance " defense doctrine of the second Yugoslavia, a rugged highland area roughly encompassing Bosnia was to function as a redoubt to which the Yugoslav People's Army would retreat in case of a Soviet or NATO invasion.

According to Fischer, this had been put into effect as early as March 1999 — a month before the start of NATO operations — when Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic had told him that " he would be finished with the ethnic Albanian separatists within a week ".

According to the legally binding verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, federal Army and Serbian police after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 24 March 1999, systematically attacked villages with Albanian population, abused, robbed and killed civilians, ordering them to go to Albania or Montenegro, burning their houses and destroying by their property.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by March 1999 ( prior to NATO bombing ), more than 200, 000 Albanian civilians were internally displaced, almost 70, 000 Albanians had fled the province to neighboring countries and Montenegro, and a further 100, 000 Yugoslav nationals, mostly Kosovar Albanians, had sought asylum in Western Europe.

According to the article, the new world order seemed to imply: shifting of resources from military to domestic needs ; a world community of states based on the rule of law ; a dwindling of security alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact ; and, an inevitable move toward European integration.

According to the first definition found in most dictionaries, examples of acronyms are NATO (), scuba (), and radar (), while examples of initialisms are FBI () and HTML ().

According to reports at the time, Çeku was the principal liaison between NATO and the KLA.

According to a poll carried out by the Taloustutkimus polling agency in July 2005, most Finnish people believe that NATO membership would increase the risk of international terrorism in Finland instead of decreasing it.

According to Amnesty International, NATO servicemen and UN staff " generate 80 % of the income " for pimps and human traffickers.

The Soviets began to attack Canadian involvement directly, “ they objected to the use of Canadian peacekeepers because Canada was one of Belgium ’ s NATO allies .” The Soviets even went so far as to demand “ the withdrawal of armed groups from Canada .” According to Scarnecchia, the Soviets “ accused the RCAF of supplying weapons and armoured steel to Tshombe ’ s forces in secessionist Katanga, they believed that this RCAF support was in line with Western Interests .” Though these allegations were never proven in response the secretary-general of the UN transferred the RCAF contingent from performing airlift duties in support of the UN mission to a Pisa-Leopoldville airlift of food and aid.

According to Gen. Michael Repass, who conducted it in the Iraq War and was very familiar with its use in Afghanistan, " AFO consists of United States Secretary of Defense-approved military operations such as clandestine operations, source operations, and deployment of enabling forces and capabilities to conduct target-specific preparations prior to the conduct of an actual operation It is logically part of Operational Preparation of the Battlespace ( OPB ), which follows the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace, a concept well-known in US and NATO doctrine, OPB is seldom used outside of Special Operations Forces channels.

* Category 1: Military firearms ; According to French law, a military firearm is a weapon which has a gauge used by the army since 1880.

According to the Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

According to the Sri Lankan Military these militias were formed after " massacres done by the LTTE " and in the early 1990s they were reformed as the Sri Lankan Home Guard.

According to Abu Iyad, two attempts were made on Arafat's life by the Israeli Mosaad and the Military Directorate in 1970.

According to the DoD the MIL-STD-188 – 300 Series contains “ communications system standards and design objectives applicable to the field of long haul and point-to – point communications in support of the Defense Communications System ( DCS ) and the National Military Command System ( NMCS ), and also to provide the necessary interface with non-DCS equipment .”

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies ' Military Balance 2010, the latter includes an Army of 12, 500, a Navy of 500 and a 500-strong Air Force, while the CIA Factbook describes the People's Armed Forces as consisting of the Intervention Force, Aeronaval Force ( navy and air ) and the Development Force.

According to Wei Yuan's work Military history of the Qing Dynasty (), the Later Jin sent 400 troops to Sakhalin in 1616, after a newfound interest because of northern Japanese contacts with the area, but later withdrew as it was considered there was no threat from the island.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

According to Palm Beach County, future annexation by the Village will include all areas west to Military Trail from the present boundaries, between Lake Worth Road and north of Forest Hill Boulevard ; and all areas east of the present boundaries to Florida Mango Road.

According to the estimates published by the Allied Military Government, as of 1949 in the A zone there were about 310, 000 inhabitants, including 239, 200 Italians and 63, 000 Slovenes.

* According to the Book of Song, a Chinese emperor appointed five kings of Wa to Supervisor of All Military Affairs of the Six Countries of Wa, Silla, Imna, Gara, Chinhan, and Mahan in 451

According to unnamed critics, JINSA is closely associated with the neoconservative movement and U. S. Military Industrial Complex.

According to German military science a commander-in-chief might be the general commanding officer of an Army, Army Group or a Military branch.

According to the Military Law of 1903, the armed forces of Bulgaria were divided in two categories: the Active Army and the National Militia.

According to the 2012 Military Pay Table effective 1 January 2012, While serving as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff / Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff, Chief of Navy Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Army / Air Force Chief of Staff, Commander of a unified or specified combatant command, basic pay is $ 20, 587. 80 a month plus additional allowances / pay.

According to Upmal and Lackey in “ SPEAKeasy, the Military Software Radio ” IEEE Communications Magazine ( NY: IEEE Press ) 1995, the SpeakEasy project was started in 1991 and was the first large-scale software radio.

According to 1790 data, the population of the Military Frontier was composed of:

According to the official Austrian census from 1850-1851, the population of the Military Frontier numbered 958, 877 inhabitants.

According to Sultan Ali, the British Military Administration wanted him removed for his refusal to sign the Malayan Union treaty.

According to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation ( also as CoveOps or covert ops ) is " an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor.

According to a fund-raising document issued in 1919, the qualifications for ISC membership were “ Commissioned rank in HM Naval or Military Forces, and Active Service in a War of the Empire ”.

According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany ( German initials: SMAD ) was assigned responsibility for the ( present-day ) eastern portion of Germany.