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All members have militaries, except for Iceland, which does not have a typical army (but it does have a coast guard and a small unit of civilian specialists for NATO operations). Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states.
Italy was the last country among NATO members to allow women to join the army. [85] Nowadays, women are present in all branches of Italian armed forces, including the police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza. They are also employed for military missions abroad. [86]
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Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte has urged member countries to adopt a new "wartime mindset", and ramp up military spending. His comments echo previous demands made by incoming US President ...
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
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The alliance has increased its NATO Response Force deployments in Eastern Europe, [9] and the combined militaries of all NATO members include around 3.5 million soldiers and personnel. [10] All member states together cover an area of 25.07 million km 2 (9.68 million sq. mi.) with a population of about 973 million people. [11]
She succeeded at the second try, making history not only as Taiwan’s first woman president, but also one of the first women in Asia elected to top office without hailing from a political dynasty.