By the 1960s NATO had adopted the 5. 56 NATO cartridge.

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

In the late 1990s, a third generation 3G ALE with significantly improved capability and performance was included in MIL-STD-188-141B, retaining backward compatibility with 2G ALE, and was adopted in NATO STANAG 4538.

After the phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) ( see history below ) it was adopted by many other international and national organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), the American Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ( ATIS ), and the American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ).

A common name for this spelling alphabet, " NATO phonetic alphabet ," exists because it appears in Allied Tactical Publication ATP-1, Volume II: Allied Maritime Signal and Maneuvering Book used by all allied navies of NATO, which adopted a modified form of the International Code of Signals.

These Principles of War have been adopted and further refined by the military forces of several nations, most notably within NATO, and continue to be applied widely to modern strategic thinking.

* 1950s ( early ): NATO adopted sarin as a standard chemical weapon, and both the U. S. S. R and the United States produced sarin for military purposes.

ISPS was well suited to describe relations between the inputs and the outputs of the design and quickly became adopted by commercial teams at DEC, as well as a number of research teams both in the USA and in NATO allies.

The EM-2 was adopted by the UK in 1951 as the world's first ( limited ) service bullpup rifle, but was promptly displaced by the adoption of the 7. 62x51mm ( 0. 308 in ) NATO cartridge, to which the EM-2 was not easily adapted.

The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of NATO in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970.

Most of the countries that participated in NATO, adopted the US military style and with it the olive green color.

In November 1991, the NATO heads of state and government adopted the " New Strategic Concept " at the NATO Summit in Rome.

In September, 2002 David Gamkrelidze and his colleagues submitted to the Parliament of Georgia a decree regarding Georgia ’ s accession to NATO as a foreign policy priority, declaration was unanimously adopted.

A firm proponent of NATO, he played an important role when the NATO Council in February 1952 adopted force goals totaling 50 divisions and 4, 000 aircraft to be achieved at the end of 1952.

Since the implementation of a non-aggression pact depends on the good faith of the parties, the international community following the Second World War adopted the norm of multilateral collective security agreements, such as the treaties establishing NATO, ANZUS, SEATO and Warsaw Pact.

Nevertheless, by 1978-79 most GN infantry formations had either the Belgian FN FAL 7. 62 x 51mm NATO or US M16A1 5. 56 x 45mm assault rifles, with elite units receiving the Israeli-made Galil SAR and ARM variants in 7. 62 x 51mm which was adopted in the mid-1970s.

Since the first M270s were delivered to the U. S. Army in 1983, the MLRS has been adopted by several NATO countries.

In 2002, the US DoD MELPe was adopted also as NATO standard, known as STANAG-4591.

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.

* M14 rifle 7. 62x51 NATO

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

Notables in the U. S. arsenal during the 20th century included the M2 Browning. 50 caliber heavy machine gun and M1919 Browning. 30 caliber medium machine gun, and the M60 7. 62 × 51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun which came into use around the Vietnam War.

In the United States, the assault rifle design was later in coming ; the replacement for the M1 Garand of WWII was another John Garand design chambered for the new 7. 62 × 51mm NATO cartridge ; the select-fire M14, which was used by the U. S. military until the 1960s.

The November 7 elections determined that more than 77 % of the population voted in favor to NATO membership.

In modern practice, it is an air-cooled medium machine gun, firing rifle cartridges such as the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO, 7. 62 × 54mmR Warsaw pact, or 7. 92x57mm Mauser.

Examples of military gauges into category 1: 9mm, 5. 56 NATO, 7. 62x39, 7. 62 NATO,. 45 ACP,. 50 BMG,. 50 AE.

** NATO HQ – Skopjie, from 2002 ( Macedonia ) – 1 out of 12 officers from 7 countries

A number of Krag-Jørgensens have also been converted to. 30-06 and 7. 62 mm NATO for target shooting and hunting.

* FN MAG 7. 62x51mm NATO machine gun: Can be fitted with KITE night sight

* 7. 62 × 51 NATO rifle cartridge

Turkish troops during the Destined Glory 2005 ( Loyal Midas ) NATO exercise in Sardinia, Italy, October 7, 2005.

Still on October 7, and less than one month after the Twin Towers fell, the U. S., aided by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries including several from the NATO alliance, initiated military action, bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda-related camps.

* March 7 – Charles De Gaulle asks U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.

* 7. 62x51mm NATO and its civilian variant. 308 Winchester, sometimes incorrectly described as. 308 NATO by persons mixing English measurements, used by some civilians, with metric measurements used by the NATO organization ;

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

New organs of unification proliferated in the decade following the conclusion of the NATO alliance.

The United States and Canada belong only to NATO and the new O.E.C.D..

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.

`` NATO cannot live on fear alone.

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.

Indeed it might be a more appropriate vehicle than NATO for the development of a parliamentary organ of the Atlantic nations, because it could encompass all of the members of the Atlantic community including those, like Sweden and Switzerland, who are unwilling to be associated with an essentially military alliance like Aj.

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

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

The moment simultaneously revealed that in the crisis our policy ran counter to that of all our NATO allies, to the entire Western community.

As our planes land the war materiel that kills pro-Western Katangans, we stand supinely bleating while Nehru's troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our NATO ally, Portugal.

and Emergency War Surgery in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Handbook.

Fifty lantern slide teaching sets on the subject of `` Emergency War Surgery ( NATO ) '' were assembled and distributed to the Medical Military Services of foreign Governments associated with NATO and South-East Asia Treaty Organization.

In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

Canada alone has been somewhat out of step with the Oslo attempt to get all the allied cars back on the track behind the NATO locomotive.

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.

Such a leader must strengthen NATO politically, and establish that true unity about which it has always talked.

After drastically overhauling NATO, Western leadership should turn to reducing the suspicions that tear apart the East and West.

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