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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]
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.
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]
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Although the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) existed as an alliance and conducted joint military exercises throughout the Cold War period, it engaged in no military operations during this time. All of its military operations occurred in the post-Cold War era. The first of these was in Bosnia, where NATO engaged to an increasing extent.
Emerging from World War II, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established by 10 European countries, the United States and Canada to form a bulwark against the communist-ruled Soviet Union.
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 ...
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.