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Elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [90] In March, NATO leaders met at Brussels for an extraordinary summit which also involved Group of Seven and European Union leaders. [91] NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. [92]
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NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, [46] and elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [51] As of June 2022, NATO had deployed 40,000 troops along its 2,500-kilometre-long (1,550 mi) Eastern flank to deter Russian aggression.
The first bunker "Back Yard" (Site A) was the first NATO site built as a communications center with its 50 teletypes and KW7 encryption system, it managed all data and voice traffic with all bases in Italy and the rest of Europe, as described in the BackYard Major Relay reproduced and clearly visible inside the base, which can now be visited ...
NATO countries also held 176 other national and multinational exercises. [39] The exerises included the following: DEFENDER-Europe 20. U.S.-led multinational exercise including NATO participation. Included 20,000 soldiers deployed directly from the U.S. to Europe. [40] Dynamic Mongoose 20. NATO-led. 29 June to 10 July 2020 in the High North.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
In her suddenly relevant history of NATO’s expansion, “Not One Inch,” she recounts how Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both tried to make a place for Russia in European security ...
Article 5 has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty. [ 52 ]