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He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.
It opposes US military bases and nuclear weapons in Europe and British membership of NATO.
* Patrick Mendis, US Diplomat, NATO military professor, and author
Most non-socialist European countries came under US protection via NATO and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves.
However, many modern tanks ( such as those operated by the US and NATO ) have onboard fire suppression systems.
NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DoD assigns a different series of numbers with a different suffix ( i. e., SA-N-vs. SA -) for these systems.
On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.
Because the attacks on the United States were judged to be within the parameters of its charter, NATO declared that Article 5 of the NATO agreement was satisfied on September 12, 2001, making the US war on terrorism the first time since its inception that NATO would actually participate in a " hot " war.
These events eventually lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the Sino-Russian War.
* The Bear and the Dragon ( 2000 ) – Russia is admitted to NATO ; China and Russia fight a major war, in which the US intervenes on its NATO ally's side.
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.
Characters in Twilight 2000 games are typically representative of US and NATO military forces.
Just after US and NATO forces launched strikes in Afghanistan, bin Laden released a video tape, stating, " America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings ," referencing the September 11 attacks on the US.
Relations with the US deteriorated again in 1999 after the bombing of the Chinese embassy during the bombing of Serbia by NATO forces, which caused three deaths, and allegations of Chinese espionage at the Los Alamos Nuclear Facility.
The US and NATO militaries used DU penetrator rounds in the 1991 Gulf War, the Bosnia war, bombing of Serbia, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
TOW-2B was the first to use tandem warheads in the mid-1980s, an aspect of the weapon which the US Army had to reveal under news media and Congressional pressure resulting from the concern that NATO antitank missiles were ineffective against Soviet tanks that were fitted with the new ERA boxes.
While Soviets designers have developed gun launched missiles, the US and NATO are developing guided tank shells.
The US assistant secretary of state for European affairs told delegates at a NATO conference in Croatia that he hoped that Kosovo's future could be resolved in the months leading up to the alliance's next summit meeting in Romania in April of that year.
Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).
If the reactor and the ballistic missiles explode while the K-19 is surfaced, the resulting nuclear blast will destroy not only the K-19 but also the nearby US navy ship and, most likely, the NATO base as well.

US and allies
This reform will bring the ratio of regular and part-time personnel of the British Army in-line with US and Canadian allies.
Kennedy also believed that United States ' allies would think of the US as " trigger-happy cowboys " who lost Berlin because they could not peacefully resolve the Cuban situation.
" Second, US credibility among their allies, and among the American people, would be damaged if they allowed the Soviet Union to appear to redress the strategic balance by placing missiles in Cuba.
Since Galileo was designed to provide the highest possible precision ( possibly even greater than GPS ) to anyone, the US was concerned that an enemy could use Galileo signals in military strikes against the US and its allies ( some weapons like missiles use GNSS systems for guidance ).
It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies but they did not accept it, as to do so would be to allow a degree of US control over the Communist economies.
In 1990-91, Saudi Arabia, fearing attack from Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait, played an important role supporting military action by the US and its allies.
During the US invasion of Afghanistan it was one of the strongholds of the Taliban and its Al-Qaeda allies.
Among the defeated bills was one allowing merchant ships to arm themselves, and another allowing the US government to make direct arms sales to the allies.
* Iran ( by US and US international allies ), notably bar nuclear, missile and many military exports to Iran and target investments in oil, gas and petrochemicals, exports of refined petroleum products, as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, banks, insurance, financial transactions and shipping.
Coupled with the power vacuum left by the decline of British and French power in the region after the US protested against the conduct of their allies during the Suez War, Eisenhower felt that a strong position needed to better the situation was further complicated by the positions taken by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was rapidly building a power base and using it to play the Soviets and Americans against each other, taking a position of " positive neutrality " and accepting aid from the Soviets.
Eisenhower's protests against longtime allies the United Kingdom and France during the Suez Canal Crisis meant that the US was the lone Western power in the Middle East and placed US oil security in jeopardy as the USSR filled the power vacuum.
US retreat from unconditional defense guarantees to lesser allies in general was driven as much by financial concerns as by policy re-examination of strategic and foreign policy objectives, reflected in Nixon's goals of detente and nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union, and establishment of formal diplomatic relations with Communist China.
After the British and their Indian allies were beaten back from an attack on Mobile, a US force led by General Jackson drove the British out of Pensacola.
Before the war, many observers believed the US and its allies could win but might suffer substantial casualties ( certainly more than any conflict since Vietnam ), and that the tank battles across the harsh desert might rival those of North Africa during World War II.
In September 2004 the US conservative blogosphere erupted with criticism of France when a New York Post opinion piece claimed that Le Figaro reported that Raffarin said " the Iraqi insurgents are our best allies ".
Rather than nighttime raids, the US Army Air Forces were dedicated to daytime bombing over Germany and Axis allies, that statistically were much more effective.
" The governments of West Germany, Britain and the US quickly reached agreement on their joint negotiating position ; it remained to persuade President de Gaulle of France to align himself with the allies.
Popular anti-war feeling is strong in these and other countries, including the US ' allies in the conflict, and many have experienced huge protests totalling millions of participants.
Conscripted into the army in 1919, he was sent to fight in a doomed war against the USSR waged at the time by Japan and its allies, including the US and Britain.
* Even shortly before on 8 December 1918 the Allied occupation of the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, the islands of Imros, Lemnos, Samothrace and Tenedos and 15 km deep into eastern and the eastern shores ; entire area demilitarized ( Zone of the Straits ; complemented 16 March – 10 August 1920 as the allies occupy the Ottoman capital Istanbul ) was a military fact, in November 1918 a double post was created: until the termination of allied occupation on 22 October 1923, there were at all times one British Senior Allied High Commissioner and one ( junior ) Allied High Commissioner ( incumbents from France, thrice, Italy and the US, each twice ).
Attacks continued against a small number of targets until March 21, 2003, when, at 1700 UTC, the main bombing campaign of the US and their allies began.

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