The History of NATO

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty, signed 4 April 1949. NATO constitutes a system of collective security, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. The NATO headquarters is located in Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium. Since its founding, the admission of new member states has increased the alliance from the original 12 countries to 30. The most recent member state to be added to NATO was North Macedonia on 27 March 2020. NATO currently recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ukraine as aspiring members. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin of non-member Russia had demanded that NATO promise to stop expanding east (to countries such as Ukraine, Georgia or Moldova), a condition that NATO refused. An additional 20 countries participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programmes. The combined military spending of all NATO members in 2020 constituted over 57% of the global nominal total. Members agreed that their aim is to reach or maintain the target defence spending of at least 2% of their GDP by 2024.

0:00:00 - intro
0:00:13 - Summary
0:00:46 - History
0:04:41 - Early operations
0:05:06 - Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention
0:06:11 - Kosovo intervention
0:07:34 - War in Afghanistan
0:09:12 - Iraq training mission
0:10:20 - Gulf of Aden anti-piracy
0:10:37 - Libya intervention
0:12:34 - Membership
0:13:14 - Enlargement
0:15:34 - Partnerships with third countries
0:17:42 - Structure
0:20:21 - Legal authority of NATO commanders
0:21:09 - outro

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