NATO's decision to cooperate with the Kosovo Liberation Army was seen by Serbs as a pro-separatist stand on Kosovo.

In 1999, the UAE was among the first non-NATO states to voice support for NATO's bombing campaign.

(...) 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 ".

NATO's deployment of these missiles was a response to the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 Pioneer, which could hit most European NATO bases within minutes of launch.

In a cryptic article published in May 1978 Pecorelli drew a connection between Moro's death and Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-communist organisation whose existence was publicly acknowledged by Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti only in October 1990.

NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe ( SHAPE ) was relocated in Casteau, a village near Mons, from Fontainebleau after France's withdrawal from the military structure of the alliance in 1967.

They were almost viewed as a ' national redoubt ,' permitting the survival and rebuilding of forces if Belgium was again invaded .< ref > David Isby and Charles Kamps Jr, ' Armies of NATO's Central Front ,' Jane's Publishing Company, 1985, p. 59.

His final dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President Charles de Gaulle to leave NATO's integrated command structure.

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

A key participant in the US delegation was General Wesley Clark ( later to become NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) in 1997 ).

Therefore, the question of whether the treaties are void depends on the question of whether NATO's use of force was in violation of the principles of the United Nations.

Supporters of NATO's action over Kosovo, assert that the campaign was largely successful in achieving its aims of getting the Albanian refugees back home, and restoring a degree of political stability to the region.

As Russian foreign minister, Ivanov was an opponent of NATO's action in Yugoslavia.

The issue was discussed in parliament on 4 March 1952 along with several other proposals to build air stations or expand airports to meet NATO's needs, namely Gardermoen, Jarlsberg, Lista, Ørland, Bardufoss and Rygge.

A short-range surface-to-surface rocket, it was in active service with the U. S. Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as part of NATO's Cold War defense of Western Europe.

From 1952 the commander-in-chief of the BAOR was also the commander of NATO's Northern Army Group ( NORTHAG ) in the event of a general war with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

An important motivation for friendship with Greece was to exploit NATO's Greek-Turkish split, which was based on the claims of the two countries in Cyprus.

During the Cold War the Bundeswehr was the backbone of NATO's conventional defence in Central Europe.

Over the course of history, the RCN has played a role in the First World War, contributed significantly to the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War, and was a part of NATO's force buildup during the Cold War.

Stein Ørnhøi, leader of the Socialist People's Party, said the party's representatives in parliament acted preposterously ; he felt they made the wrong decision in supporting NATO's actions in Kosovo when the majority of the party was against it.

In a memorandum sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on September 17, 1958, he argued for the creation of a tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the United States and the United Kingdom, and also for the expansion of NATO's coverage to include geographical areas of interest to France, most notably French Algeria, where France was waging a counter-insurgency and sought NATO assistance.

At that time, NATO's command in Lisbon, historically part of the Atlantic command, was reassigned to ACO.

Operation Strikeback was a series of multilateral naval exercises that concentrated on NATO's eastern Atlantic / northern European flank.

General Dozier was the deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, Italy.

The Royal Australian Navy has selected the Aegis system for placement on its new Air Warfare Destroyers, and it's part of NATO's European missile defence system.

NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for WMD, Guy Roberts cited the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1998 US attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, ( identified by US intelligence to have been a chemical weapons facility ) and the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq ’ s nuclear facility at Osirak as examples of the counter-proliferation self-help paradigm.

As foreign minister, he gained respect at home and abroad the reputation as a tough but pragmatic supporter of Russia's interests and as an opponent of NATO's expansion into the former Eastern bloc, though on 27 May 1997, after 5 months of negotiation with NATO Secretary general Javier Solana, Russia signed the Foundation Act, which is seen as marking the end of cold war hostilities.

" Underscoring the delicate security situation in Afghanistan, British General David Richards, who commands NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said on October 8, " By this time next year I would understand if a lot of Afghans, down in the south in particular, said to us all, ' Listen, you're failing year after year at delivering the improvements which you have promised to us.

NATO's North Atlantic Council of foreign ministers issued the Brussels Declaration on Conventional Arms Control, which called for two distinct sets of negotiations: one to build on the Confidence and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) results of the Stockholm Conference and the other to establish conventional stability in Europe through negotiations on conventional arms control from the Atlantic to the Urals ( ATTU ).

Having replaced David Petraeus on August 11, 2010, he previously commanded United States Joint Forces Command from November 9, 2007 to August 2010 and served concurrently as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation from November 9, 2007 to September 8, 2009.

Polish Army troops would have formed part of the second strategic echelon deployed for an attack on NATO's Allied Forces Central Europe.

The Hungarian government also invited NATO's E-3 AWACS planes to patrol over the Lake Balaton area, keeping a constant radar eye on the Balkan civil war theatre.

The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 ( SNMG2 ) assumed the current denomination on 1 January 2005, when new names and missions were allocated to NATO's maritime Immediate Reaction Forces, to make them part of the NRF.

Christian Democrat co-founder of Gladio ( NATO's stay-behind anti-Communist organization in Italy ) Paolo Emilio Taviani told investigators that the SID military intelligence service was about to send a senior officer from Rome to Milan to prevent the bombing, but finally decided to send a different officer from Padua in order to put the blame on left-wing anarchists.

The artillery group was part of a Rapid Reaction Force deployed on Mount Igman to support the task of NATO's aircraft by pounding Serb artillery positions.

The concept of NRF was first endorsed with a declaration of NATO's Heads of State at the Prague Summit on 22 November 2002.

This meant that the foreseen Soviet attack on West-Germany would be tried to be forced to a halt by NATO's European forces, Allied Command Europe.

In December 2005, Kleanthis Grivas published an article in To Proto Thema, a Greek Sunday newspaper, in which he accused " Sheepskin ", the Greek branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary organization during the Cold War, of the assassination of CIA station chief Richard Welch in Athens in 1975, as well as of the assassination of Stephen Saunders in 2000.

On 8 December 1994, Walker was appointed commander of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ( ARRC ), which had its headquarters in Rheindahlen, Germany, and promoted to acting lieutenant general.

Negotiations for MBFR were stalled by the USSR in 1979 because of NATO's decision to deploy new intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

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.

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

It came to be used in the debate of the NATO countries in response to Willy Brandt's attempts to normalize relations with East Germany, and the following widespread scepticism in Germany against NATO's Dual-Track Decision.

European NATO countries were frequently criticized by the United States for insufficient military expenditure, and for not sending enough troops to support NATO's war in Afghanistan.

Its steeply-sloped front armour offered full protection against NATO's standard. 50 calibre machine gun and partial protection against 20 millimetre Oerlikon cannon both in a 60 degree frontal arc, while its 73 mm gun and ATGM were a threat to NATO APCs and even MBTs.

* NATO's secretary general, Lord Robertson announces that the United States provided " clear and compelling proof " in oral briefings to NATO al-Qaeda's responsibility who affirm the invocation of the mutual defense clause of the organization's charter.

After weeks of bombing, Yugoslavia submits to NATO's demands and NATO forces occupy Kosovo and later UN peacekeeping forces to take control of Kosovo.

The government of Iceland contributes financially to NATO's international overhead costs and recently has taken a more active role in NATO deliberations and planning.

This became an issue after the NATO air campaign to oust Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and NATO's support of the rebels in Libya.

Some however argue that Article 5 of NATO's charter restricts NATO's use of force to situations where a NATO member has been attacked.

It has been argued however that NATO's actions were in violation of the charter of NATO itself.

Opponents of NATO's involvement also argued that the situation in Serbia and Yugoslavia posed no threat to any of the NATO members.

The Americans left in 1967 as a result of France's withdrawal from NATO's integrated military command, and all non-French NATO forces were asked to leave France.

ComSubGru 8's operational functions were accomplished through four Task Forces: CTF 64, CTF 69 ( attack submarines ), NATO's CTF 442, or deployed SSBNs and CTF 439, the operational title for Commander Submarines Allied Naval Forces South — the rear admiral's NATO hat.

He rose quickly in the ranks and provided photographs of some 10, 000 pages to his controllers, including the precise location plans for the deployment of cruise missiles and Pershing II rockets in Western Europe, as well as the central MC 161 document which summarized the NATO strategy as well as NATO's analysis of the Warsaw Pact and its intentions.

Considering the response given to be unsatisfactory, de Gaulle began the development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and in 1966 withdrew from NATO's military structures and expelled NATO troops from French soil.

Operation Deep Water involved NATO carrier and amphibious assault forces operating along NATO's southern flank in the Mediterranean Sea.

The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was NATO's and Canada's most controversial act as its first deliberate non-defensive aggression against another sovereign state.

The relationship also improved the two nations ' military ties ; despite its departure from NATO's command structure in 1966, France developed two separate nuclear targeting plans, one " national " for the Force de Frappe's role as a solely French deterrent, and one coordinated with NATO.