International military organizations: Warsaw Pact, NATO, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Allied Control Council, ANZUS - Softcover
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Warsaw Pact, NATO, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Allied Control Council, ANZUS, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Peninsula Shield Force, Central Treaty Organization, Finabel, The Technical Cooperation Program, Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation, ABCA Armies, AUSCANNZUKUS, Five Power Defence Arrangements, List of militaries that recruit foreigners, Collective Rapid Reaction Force, Permanent Joint Board on Defense. Excerpt: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( ; French: ), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defence against a prospective Soviet invasion-doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure from 1966. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization became drawn into the Balkans while building better links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated wi...
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- PublisherBooks LLC, Wiki Series
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1157627439
- ISBN 13 9781157627432
- BindingTapa blanda
- Number of pages36
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