During the Cold War, Europe was divided along the Iron Curtain between NATO in the west and the Warsaw Pact in the east.

During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year.

During his chancellorship, the West Germany economy grew quickly, and West Germany established friendly relations with France, participated in the emerging European Union, established the country's armed forces ( the Bundeswehr ), and became a pillar of NATO as well as firm ally of the United States.

During the Libyan civil war, all European Union and NATO member states withdrew diplomatic staff from Tripoli and shut their embassies in the Libyan capital.

During the early 1980s a roughly standardized load for this ammunition was adopted throughout NATO ( see: 5. 56 × 45mm NATO ).

During autumn 1999, following the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing campaign, Đukanović ( who by now firmly held power in Montenegro as Bulatović was completely squeezed out ) drafted a document called Platforma za redefiniciju odnosa Crne Gore i Srbije ( A platform for redefinition of relations within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) calling for major changes in the division of governing responsibilities within FR Yugoslavia though still officially seeing Montenegro within a joint state with Serbia.

* December 10 – During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO.

During the Cold War, it was presumed to be an invasion route for any conventional war between NATO and Soviet forces.

During the Cold War Sweden maintained a dual approach, publicly the strict neutrality policy was forcefully maintained, but unofficially strong ties were kept with the U. S., Norway, Denmark, West Germany and other NATO countries.

During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, 600 Belgian paratroopers participated in Operation Allied Harbour, a NATO operation to protect and provide assistance to the huge number of ethnic Albanian refugees in Albania and Macedonia.

During the war, the KLA troops collaborated with the NATO troops, and they were qualified by the NATO as " freedom fighters ".

During the Cold War period, both superpowers, NATO and the Soviet Bloc, built massive nuclear arsenals, aimed, to a large extent, at each other.

During Operation Flash and Operation Storm in Croatia he demanded military operations by OUN and / or NATO against Croatian army.

During the Cold War " the West " was often used to refer to the NATO camp as opposed to the Warsaw Pact and non-aligned nations.

During the NATO air strikes against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 the factory was severely damaged.

During the " cold war " between NATO and the Warsaw Pact powers, some model boards with large areas of real terrain were produced before being superseded by digital image generation systems.

During a NATO exercise in the summer of 1956, Collins was forced to eject from an F-86 after a fire started aft of the cockpit.

During their imprisonment, Farrell theorizes that there is no worldwide pandemic, and that only Great Britain has been quarantined, which is proved when a plane flies over, possibly a NATO plane scouting the land.

During this post-WW2 post-colonial period, the legacy of the Great Game would sow the seeds of a new sustained state of political and military tension ; between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies ; and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies.

During the Cold War Frankfurt-Hahn Airport was a frontline NATO facility known as Hahn Air Base.

During Operation Desert Storm ( 1991 ) there was a need for a deep penetration bomb similar to the British weapons of WWII, but none of the NATO air forces had such a weapon.

During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Friedman wrote the following in The New York Times: " Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation ( the Serbs certainly think so ), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

During the war, the entire area was camouflaged to fool enemy aerial reconnaissance.

During the course of Fortitude, the almost complete lack of German aerial reconnaissance, together with the absence of uncontrolled German agents in Britain, came to make physical deception almost irrelevant.

During the Yalta Conference on 4 February, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Aleksei Antonov, raised the issue of hampering the reinforcement of German troops from the western front by paralysing the junctions of Berlin and Leipzig with aerial bombardment.

During World War I Great Yarmouth suffered the first aerial bombardment in the UK, by Zeppelin L3 on 19 January 1915.

During U. S. aerial bombardment of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the 22d Bombardment Wing deployed its planes several times and the base served as a logistical springboard for supplies and equipment en route to the Pacific.

During the second world war, aerial navigation was taught at Dumfries also at Wigtown and nearby Annan was a fighter training unit.

During World War II, the Swedish military captured a fully functioning German aerial surveillance camera from a downed German plane.

During the course of the coming war, the RFC would be mainly responsible for over-land operations, whilst the RNAS partook in all aspects of aerial warfare ; strategic air defence, strategic bombing, ASW and fleet reconnaissance.

During the early 1960s, Boyd, together with Thomas Christie, a civilian mathematician, created the Energy-Maneuverability theory, or E-M theory of aerial combat.

During World War II, he worked on military tasks, which included developing dark-adaptation goggles, target finders, the first passively guided smart bombs, and a special stereoscopic viewing system called the Vectograph which revealed camouflaged enemy positions in aerial photography.

During March 1937 he flew aerial reconnaissance flights of the harbor at Benghazi, North Africa, taking photographs which were later used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.

During the summer, the " Golden Round Trip "-a popular route for tourists-involves taking a boat from Lucerne across Lake Lucerne to Alpnachstad, going up on the cogwheel railway, coming down on the aerial cableways and panorama gondolas, and taking a bus back to Lucerne.

During a Napoleonic Wars and Franco-Prussian War, balloons were used for aerial reconnaissance by the French.

During World War II, Operation Scavenger was the aerial bombardment of Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands on 4-5 August, 1944, as part of the preparation for the invasion and other fighting around the Marianas Islands.

During aerial population surveys Greater and Lesser Scaup are counted together, because they look almost identical from the air.

During rebel attacks these vehicles could issue emergency " XX calls " ( XX with a coded location ), which were given priority over all other radio traffic, to summon aerial reinforcements.

During World War II the medal's award criteria varied widely depending on the theater of operations, aerial combat, and the missions accomplished.

During the night of 26 September 1916, Bolton was the target for one of the first aerial offensives in history.

During the first aerial flight in North America by balloon on January 9, 1793, from Philadelphia to Deptford, New Jersey, Jean-Pierre Blanchard carried a personal letter from George Washington to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to land on, making the flight the first delivery of air mail in the United States.

During the 1994 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, the Tom Ridge campaign used aerial advertising along the Jersey Shore.

During an aerial reconnaissance on the morning of 28 March it was reported that no Ottoman units were within range of the British guns.

During World War II, in 1942 the Department of War annexed of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for use by the United States Army Air Force as an aerial gunnery and bombing range.

During the military coup d ' état on September 11, 1973, the palace was partially destroyed by aerial bombing by the Chilean Air Force as requested by the army when it was assaulting the said palace when then Socialist President Salvador Allende rejected the military's ultimatum for him to step down.