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1 day ago · The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
5 days ago · NATO is a military alliance that, at its establishment in 1949, sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. It was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization after the Cold War ended. It currently has 32 members.
- David G. Haglund
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stat...
- NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- Currently 31 countries are members of NATO.
- The current member states of NATO are Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,...
- Finland is the newest member of NATO; it joined the alliance in 2023. In May 2022 Sweden announced its intention to join NATO in response to Russia...
5 days ago · The League's collective security system required nations to act, if necessary, against states they considered friendly, and in a way that might endanger their national interests, to support states for which they had no normal affinity.
2 days ago · A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutual protection and support in case of a crisis that has not been identified in advance.
2 days ago · strengthening international peace and security. They shall take council among themselves immediately, whenever, in the opinion of any of them, there has arisen the threat of an armed attack on one or several states that are signatories of the treaty, in the interests of organising their joint defence and of upholding peace and security. Article 4.
3 days ago · Its collective defense principle has deterred potential adversaries and prevented large-scale conflicts in Europe for over 70 years. Should NATO falter, the consequences would likely be...
5 days ago · With the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) practically becoming defunct, particularly since Russia’s pre-occupation in its illegal invasion of Ukraine, Armenia finds itself ...
