NATO: The most powerful organization in the world

NATO

OTAN means “Organisationdu Traité de l'Atlantique Nord” which is "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" in French. NATO-OTAN is the name of both the organization's official languages, English and French.

Introduction 

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of 28 countries, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. The coalition consists of the United States, most European Union members, Canada and Turkey. Currently, NATO has 30 member countries.

NATO 28 members in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia , Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.

Each member appoints an ambassador in the NATO. They supply officers to serve on NATO committees and send appropriate officers to discuss NATO business. These may include the president of the country, the prime minister, the foreign affairs minister, or the head of the Department of Defense.

NATO also participates in three alliances, which 28 of its members

Extend their influence beyond countries.

(1). There is the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, which helps partners to become NATO members. It includes 23 non-NATO countries that support the purpose of NATO. It started in 1991.

(2). The Mediterranean Dialogue wants to stabilize the Middle East. Its non-NATO members include Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. It started in 1994.

(3). Istanbul Cooperation works for peace in a larger Middle East region. It consists of 4 members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. They are Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. It started in 2004.

 

NATO also collaborates with 8 other countries in joint security issues.

 There are 5 Asian countries, including Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and New Zealand. There are two cooperative countries in the Middle East: Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

Members agree that an armed attack against someone would be considered an attack against all of them, and that they would come to each other's aid. Which is stated in Article 5 of the NATO constitution, "An armed attack ... shall be considered an attack on all of them."

NATO has traditionally stated its common purpose as "protecting liberty, common heritage and civilization" of its members by promoting "stability and welfare in the North Atlantic region".

It is the most powerful regional defense alliance in the world.

 

History

NATO was established in the aftermath of World War II, largely to prevent Soviet expansion into Europe.

The Soviet Union took over the threat of increasing its influence in Europe and faced the threat of communist expansion in 1949 of NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Was formed 

 The founding members of NATO signed the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949. It worked closely with the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The organizations were formed during the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.

Originally consisting of 12 countries, the organization was expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Germany in 1955. However, the United States has dominated the coalition since then.

  After West Germany joined the NATO, in 1955 the Soviet Union formed a counter-alliance called the Warsaw Pact, the communist countries formed the Warsaw Pact alliance. Including the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany.

Which dissolved after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. And the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Warsaw Pact country to gain NATO membership in 1999.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of Warsaw Pact, NATO ceased to be an organization.

NATO Force

In 1995 NATO formed its first multinational Implementation Force (IFOR) under the orders of the United Nations to implement the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.

 

NATO has the largest Armed forces in the world which are almost

  There are more than all the countries, if we talk about the present

The total number of active personnel of NATO is around 2,203,468. The total number of reserved personnel of NATO is around 2,755,000.

 

The next historic step was taken in 2004 when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as well as Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania (which were part of the USSR Republic until 1991) were welcomed as NATO members at a ceremony in Washington.

Montenegro became the most recent addition to NATO in 2017.

However Iceland is the only NATO member that does not have a standing army.

Headquarter 

NATO headquarters is the political and administrative center of the alliance. It is located in Brussels, Belgium.

 

Who has the largest part of armed force in NATO

In 2019, the United States was the highest military personnel of all NATO countries with 1.34 million troops. Turkey was the second largest military personnel country with 435,000 personnel.

Action's 

In 1999, the coalition launched an 11-week campaign of airstrikes to oust Yugoslavia forces from Kosovo. This air strike was the largest military operation ever undertaken by NATO, and for the first time a sovereign after UN approval. Used force against the state. The NATO Peace Army still remains in Kosovo.

 

NATO made its first operation outside Europe in 2003, when it commanded the UN peacekeeping force in and around the Afghanistan capital Kabul.

 

 

 

 

 

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