Although the NATO countries did not adopt an intermediate-power round, they continued the trend toward shorter and lighter magazine-fed battle rifles.

Finland did not attempt to join NATO, even though post-Soviet countries on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere joined.

The authorities feigned agreement to the Cairo demand, ( although Egyptian Prime Minister Aziz Sedki had already told the German authorities that the Egyptians did not wish to become involved in the hostage crisis ), and at 10: 10 p. m. a bus carried the hostages and terrorists from 31 Connollystraße to two Bell UH-1 military helicopters, which were to transport them to nearby Fürstenfeldbruck, a NATO airbase.

Therefore, the V-Force ( by having the capability of precision tactical air medium bombardment ) effectively deterred the armored overrun strategy, of the massed and massive Soviet & Warsaw Pact armies, which ( in theory ), could have overwhelmed the vastly outnumbered NATO ground forces of central Europe in a surprise ground attack ( which did not give away tactical surprise, by use of organic tactical air support ).

Powell claimed that the debate was now more political than military ; that Britain did not possess an independent deterrent and that through NATO Britain was tied to the nuclear deterrence theory of the United States.

Nonetheless, he stressed that his new Ostpolitik did not neglect the close ties of the Federal Republic with Western Europe and the United States or its membership in NATO.

The Americans did not share the Europeans ' and Russians ' historical fears over German expansionism, but wished to ensure that Germany would stay within NATO.

However the integration of the armed forces into NATO did not begin until after the Korean War, to which Belgium ( in co-operation with Luxembourg ) sent a detachment known as the Belgian United Nations Command.

Individual nations could join the Partnership for Peace under separate agreements with NATO, and many did so, enabling them to participate in NATO joint training and military exercises without becoming formal members of the alliance.

The international reaction to the Yugoslav and Belarusian report on one hand, ( which supported the view that those killed were KLA fighters, not civilians as claimed by the Kosovo-Albanians and NATO ) and that of the EU expert team on the other, ( which did not find any evidence to suggest that the dead were combatants ) differed considerably, not least in the NATO-countries who were preparing for war against Yugoslavia.

While NATO did not have the backing of the United Nations Security Council to use force in Yugoslavia, nor claims an armed attack occurred against another state, its advocates contend that its actions were consistent with the United Nations Charter, claiming that the UN Charter prohibits unprovoked attacks only by individual states but condones unprovoked attacks by military coalitions of several states, such as NATO.

Some opponents of the NATO intervention cited the timing of the same, coming as it did on the heels of the Monica Lewinsky scandal as an indication that the conflict was merely a " little victorious war " intended for political gain rather than for any humanitarian purpose.

Unlike NATO, CENTO did not have a unified military command structure, nor were many U. S. or UK military bases established in member countries, although the U. S. had communications and electronic intelligence facilities in Iran, and operated U-2 intelligence flights over the USSR from bases in Pakistan.

Yet, though Bulgarian émigré dissident Georgi Markov wrote that " served the Soviet Union more ardently than the Soviet leaders themselves did ," in many ways he can be said to have exploited the USSR for political purposes, with Bulgaria serving a buffer between the USSR and NATO.

NATO did not have any knowledge of the existence of Topas until GDR officer Heinz Busch defected in 1990.

In the same program, Rupp said he was proud of the damage he did to NATO over the years of his intelligence activities.

Greece did not withdraw from NATO, United States troops and military bases were not ordered out of Greece, and Greek membership in the European Economic Community continued, largely because Papandreou proved very capable of securing monetary aid for Greece.

This led to Operation Sky Monitor, where NATO monitored violations of the no-fly zone but did not take action against violators of the resolution.

It has generally been believed that he was barred from attending by the U. S. State Department due to the Cold War, and this is consistent with the fact that the only other eligible active player from a NATO country, Max Euwe of the Netherlands, also did not play.

The Trudeau government did not ultimately withdraw Canada from NATO, although it did reduce the country's troop deployment.

Nevertheless, Eisenhower initially anticipated that NATO would be a truly European entity, with the American commitment ending after ten years or so.

The US and NATO allies initially attempt to stay out of the war, but are quickly drawn into the European conflict.

It was drafted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) and named for Chateau Rambouillet, where it was initially proposed.

This 30-day mission was to initially involve approximately 3, 500 NATO that number went up to 4, 200 NATO troops and Macedonian troops to disarm the NLA and destroy their weapons.

In the North Atlantic basin, subtropical cyclones were initially named from the NATO phonetic alphabet list in the early to mid-1970s.

NATO was set to expand initially to Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic and has since moved further eastward.

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The MIM-14 Nike-Hercules ( initially designated SAM-A-25 ), was a solid fuel propelled two-stage surface-to-air missile, used by US and NATO armed forces for high-and medium-altitude air defense.

In a French-led NATO force initiated, the operation was a success initially, due to reaching out to locals beforehand, they retook the entire valley with a single casualty over a single day of fighting.

In practice, each of 36 NATO squadrons ( initially six Canadian squadrons Number 1 Air Division RCAF ) would provide two aircraft and pilots to a Quick Reaction Alert facility.

The 1991 Croatian War and the subsequent War of Bosnia saw some naval action, initially when the Yugoslav Navy declared a blockade of the ports of Dalmatia from September to December 1991 and later in 1994-1995, when NATO naval forces, as part of Operation Sharp Guard, deployed a number of units to the Adriatic in order to enforce a UN arms embargo on former Yugoslavia.

Gale initially retired in 1957, but early in 1958 he was recalled to serve with NATO and replaced Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe ; he retired permanently in 1960 after three years in the post.

A modified version was initially identified by NATO as a new design and given the SS-22 reporting name, but later recognized it as merely a variant of the original and maintained the name Scaleboard.

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.

Six Serbian MiG-29 were shot down by NATO ( 4 USAF F-15C, 1 USAF F-16C, 1 Dutch F-16A MLU ), all of them using AIM-120 missiles ( the kill by the F-16C may have happened due to friendly fire, from SA-7 MANPAD fired by Serbian infantry ).

The two most important policy objectives in this regard have been accession into NATO and the European Union, achieved in March and May 2004 respectively.

Nevertheless, defence policymakers have quietly converted to NATO equipment and contributed troops.

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.

While Iran is helping to develop the Afghan Shia communities, the NATO officials have been accusing Iran of secretly arming and training the Taliban insurgents.

In the post – Cold War era, NATO and the EU have been gradually admitting most of the former members of the Warsaw Pact.

The French have stood among the strongest supporters of NATO and EU policy in the Balkans to prevent genocide in Yugoslavia.

Italian forces have contributed to ISAF, the NATO force in Afghanistan, and a Provincial reconstruction team and five Italian soldiers have died under ISAF.

Some organizations, such as NATO, have collective security or mutual defense provisions.

While the Afghan government tries to rebuild the war-torn city, insurgents have continued to stage attacks not only against the Afghan government and US-led NATO forces but also against foreign diplomats and Afghan civilians.

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

All major parties have declared their support for Lithuania's membership in NATO and the European Union ( EU ).

However, many modern tanks ( such as those operated by the US and NATO ) have onboard fire suppression systems.

The purveyors of the moral equivalence device have continued to demand this in the form of NATO expansion, the overthrow of rogue states, the invasion of Iraq, and the War on Terror.

Generally the Soviet pilots have not used the NATO names, preferring a different Russian nickname.

The premise is that the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact have fought a lengthy conventional war, followed by a ( limited ) nuclear war with all its consequences.

The civilian governments of most countries in the game have been shattered ( France and Belgium quit NATO and thus largely escaped war damage ,) with the US government splitting into the civilian and military governments, as has the military chain of command, supply lines, etc.

The United Kingdom has sought to be a leading member of the United Nations, the European Union and NATO, yet since the 1990s large-scale devolution movements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have brought into question the future viability of this constantly evolving political union.

Members of the Libertarian Party have also supported the repeal of NAFTA, CAFTA, and similar trade agreements, as well as the United States ' exit from the United Nations, WTO, and NATO.

In service the V-Force would have been capable of destroying both area and high value point targets ( air bases, command centers, ground forces staging areas ) hours before they could be attacked by NATO or SAC ’ s, long range bomber forces.