NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO is the acronym of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an inter-legislative, military coalition, which is derived from the North Atlantic Treaty. This treaty was signed on the 4th of April 1949. NATO constitutes a system of combined defense whereby its component states assume mutual defense in reply to an assault by any outside party.

The head office of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is in Brussels in Belgium, which is one among the 28 associate states across Europe and North America. The latest states, added to the NATO during April 2009 are Croatia and Albania. An extra 22 nations partake in the partnership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for peace program, with 15 other nations involved in institutionalized discussion programs. The joint military spending of all NATO affiliates constitutes more than 70 % of the worldwide total. The amount spend by members on the protection is believed to account for 2 % of the Gross Domestic Product.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was little above a political organization, pending the Korean War stimulated the member states of the organization. An incorporated armed structure was built up under the instruction of two supreme commanders of the United States. The itinerary of the Cold War showed the way to the enmity with the Warsaw Pact countries, which formed during 1955. Distrusts over the power of the association between the United States and the European states receded and flowed, together with doubts over the trustworthiness of the NATO protection against a potential Soviet attack. These doubts led to the growth of the self-governing French nuclear prevention and the removal of the French from the armed structure of NATO during 1966 for 30 years. Subsequent to the collapse of the Berlin Wall during 1989, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was drawn into the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and organized its first martial interferences in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and afterward Yugoslavia during 1999. Politically, NATO sought enhanced relations with previous Warsaw Pact nations, several among which joined the coalition during 1999 and 2004.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization includes twenty-eight associates, mostly in North America and Europe. Some of these nations also include territory on numerous continents that can be covered only as far as the southern part of the Tropic of Cancer only in the Atlantic Ocean that defines the area of responsibility of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to the Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty. At the time of the original treaty compromises, the United States persisted that colonies, such as the Belgian Congo be debarred from the agreement. However, French Algeria was covered, pending the 3rd of July 1962. Twelve among these twenty-eight members are original affiliates who joined the organization during 1949, whereas the other sixteen members joined the organization in out of seven extension rounds. Some members expend in excess of 2 % of their gross domestic product on protection, with America accounting for 3/4th of the defense spending of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. New relationship in the organization has been mostly from the eastern parts of Europe and the Balkans, as well as former affiliates of the Warsaw Pact.