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force its eastern flank and send military aid to ukraine the invasion caused finland and sweden to join the alliance since the invasion russia has been accused of waging a hybrid conflict against nato since 2025 there has been internal crisis in nato due to threats made by the us a major contributing member against the sovereignty of fellow members canada and denmark nato members contribute to collective defense in two ways by funding their own defense and by helping to fund a shared budget for running the organization as a whole and maintaining joint facilities each member has committed to a target of spending at least 5 of their gross domestic product gdp on their own defense and security by 2035 5 while in 2026 the shared budget was around 5 billion split between all 32 members 6 as of 2026 the us spends the most overall on its defense norway spends the most per capita while poland and the baltic states spend the most as a share of gdp 7 the combined military spending of nato members makes up over half of the world total the combined militaries of all nato members include about 3 5 million soldiers and personnel nato s main headquarters are in brussels belgium while its military headquarters are near mons belgium history main article history of nato 20th century nato has its roots in the atlantic charter a 1941 agreement between the united states and united kingdom the charter laid out a framework for international cooperation without territorial expansion after world war ii 8 on 4 march 1947 the treaty of dunkirk was signed by france and the uk during the aftermath of world war ii and the start of the cold war as a treaty of alliance and mutual assistance in the event of possible attacks by germany in march 1948 this alliance was expanded in the treaty of brussels to include the benelux countries forming the brussels treaty organization commonly known as the western union 9 talks for a wider military alliance which could include north america also began that month in the us where their foreign policy under the truman doctrine set out in 1947 promoted international solidarity against actions they saw as communist aggression such as the february 1948 coup d état in czechoslovakia these talks resulted in the signature of the north atlantic treaty on 4 april 1949 by the member states of the western union and the us canada portugal italy norway denmark and iceland 10 canadian diplomat lester b pearson was a key author and drafter of the treaty 11 12 13 west germany joined nato in 1955 which led to the formation of the rival warsaw pact during the cold war the north atlantic treaty was largely dormant until the korean war initiated the establishment of nato to implement it with an integrated military structure this included the formation of supreme headquarters allied powers europe shape in 1951 which adopted many of the western union s military structures and plans 14 including their agreements on standardizing equipment and agreements on stationing foreign military forces in european countries in 1952 the post of secretary general of nato was established as the organization s chief civilian that year also saw the first major nato maritime exercises exercise mainbrace and the accession of greece and turkey to the organization 15 16 following the london and paris conferences west germany was permitted to rearm militarily as they joined nato in may 1955 which was in turn a major factor in the creation of the soviet dominated warsaw pact delineating the two opposing sides of the cold war 17 the building of the berlin wall in 1961 marked a height in cold war tensions when 400 000 us troops were stationed in europe 18 doubts over the strength of the relationship between the european states and the us ebbed and flowed along with doubts over the credibility of the nato defence against a prospective soviet invasion doubts that led to the development of the independent french nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of france from nato s military structure in 1966 19 20 in 1982 the newly democratic spain joined the alliance 21 the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 marked a turning point in nato s role in europe and a section of that wall is displayed outside nato headquarters the revolutions of 1989 in europe led to a strategic reevaluation of nato s purpose nature tasks and focus on the continent in october 1990 east germany became part of the federal republic of germany and the alliance and in november 1990 the alliance signed the treaty on conventional armed forces in europe cfe in paris with the soviet union it mandated specific military reductions across the continent which continued after the collapse of the warsaw pact in february 1991 and the dissolution of the soviet union that december which removed the de facto main adversaries of nato 22 this began a drawdown of military spending and equipment in europe the cfe treaty allowed signatories to remove 52 000 pieces of conventional armaments in the following sixteen years 23 and allowed military spending by nato s european members to decline by 28 percent from 1990 to 2015 24 in 1990 several western leaders gave assurances to mikhail gorbachev that nato would not expand further east as revealed by memoranda of private conversations 25 26 27 28 in a later interview gorbachev stated that an expansion of nato was not discussed at the time and that talks were about stationing nato troops in former east germany 29 in the 1990s the organization extended its activities into political and humanitarian situations that had not formerly been nato concerns 30 during the breakup of yugoslavia the organization conducted its first military interventions in bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and later yugoslavia in 1999 31 politically the organization sought better relations with the newly autonomous central and eastern european states and diplomatic forums for regional cooperation between nato and its neighbors were set up during this post cold war period including the partnership for peace and the mediterranean dialogue initiative in 1994 the euro atlantic partnership council in 1997 and the nato russia permanent joint council in 1998 at the 1999 washington summit hungary poland and the czech republic officially joined nato and the organization also issued new guidelines for membership with individualized membership action plans these plans governed the subsequent addition of new alliance members 32 21st century group photo at 75th anniversary summit in washington d c 2024 article 5 of the north atlantic treaty requiring member states to come to the aid of any member state subject to an armed attack was invoked for the only time after the september 11 attacks 33 after which troops were deployed to afghanistan under the nato led isaf the organization has operated a range of additional roles since then including sending trainers to iraq assisting in counter piracy operations 34 the election of french president nicolas sarkozy in 2007 led to a major reform of france s military position culminating with the return to full membership on 4 april 2009 which also included france rejoining the nato military command structure while maintaining an independent nuclear deterrent 20 35 36 nato e 3a flying with us air force f 16s in a nato exercise the 2014 russian annexation of crimea led to strong condemnation by all nato members 37 and was one of the seven times that article 4 which calls for consultation among nato members has been invoked prior times included during the iraq war and syrian civil war 38 at the 2014 wales summit the leaders of nato s member states formally committed for the first time to spend the equivalent of at least two percent of their gross domestic products on defence by 2024 which had previously been only an informal guideline 39 steadfast defender 24 was the largest nato exercise since the end of the cold war at the 2016 warsaw summit nato countries agreed on the creation of nato enhanced forward presence which deployed four multinational battalion sized battlegroups in estonia latvia lithuania and poland 40 before and during the russo ukrainian war several nato countries sent ground troops warships and fighter aircraft to reinforce the alliance s eastern flank and multiple countries again invoked article 4 41 42 43 in march 2022 nato leaders met at brussels for an extraordinary summit which also involved group of seven and european union leaders 44 nato member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in bulgaria hungary romania and slovakia 40 and elements of the nato response force were activated for the first time in nato s history 45 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 more than half of this number have been deployed in bulgaria romania hungary slovakia and poland which five countries muster a considerable combined ex nato force of 259 000 troops to supplement bulgaria s air force spain sent eurofighter typhoons the netherlands sent eight f 35 attack aircraft and additional french and us attack aircraft would arrive soon as well 46 in 2025 germany stationed a full armoured brigade in lithuania 47 since us president donald trump s reelection in 2024 nato faced an unprecedented rift between the us and the majority of other nato members as the administration repeatedly threatened the sovereignty of two founding members canada and denmark in its reiterating proposals of canadian absorption to the us and in the greenland crisis respectively and in wider deterioration of us european union and canada us relations 48 49 in march 2026 trump called nato allies cowards for refusing calls to help reopen the strait of hormuz during the 2026 israeli us strikes on iran describing the alliance as a paper tiger and ineffective without the us 50 51 52 military operations main article list of nato operations early operations no military operations were conducted by nato during the cold war following the end of the cold war the first operations anchor guard in 1990 and ace guard in 1991 were prompted by the iraqi invasion of kuwait airborne early warning aircraft were sent to provide coverage of southeastern turkey and later a quick reaction force was deployed to the area 53 bosnia and herzegovina intervention main article nato intervention in bosnia and herzegovina a usaf aircraft landing during operation deliberate force after the srebrenica massacre the bosnian war began in 1992 as a result of the breakup of yugoslavia the deteriorating situation led to united nations security council resolution 816 on 9 october 1992 authorizing its member states to enforce a previously declared no fly zone under the un protection force over central bosnia and herzegovina nato complied and started enforcing the ban on 12 april 1993 with operation deny flight from june 1993 until october 1996 operation sharp guard added maritime enforcement of the arms embargo and economic sanctions against the federal republic of yugoslavia on 28 february 1994 nato took its first wartime action by shooting down four bosnian serb aircraft violating the no fly zone 54 on 10 and 11 april 1994 the un protection force called in air strikes to protect the goražde safe area resulting in the bombing of a bosnian serb military command outpost near goražde by two us f 16 jets acting under nato direction 55 in retaliation serbs took 150 u n personnel hostage on 14 april 56 57 on 16 april a british sea harrier was shot down over goražde by serb forces 58 in august 1995 a two week nato bombing campaign operation deliberate force began against the army of the republika srpska after the srebrenica genocide 59 further nato air strikes helped bring the yugoslav wars to an end resulting in the dayton agreement in november 1995 59 as part of this agreement nato deployed a un mandated peacekeeping force under operation joint endeavor named ifor almost 60 000 nato troops were joined by forces from non nato countries in this peacekeeping mission this transitioned into the smaller sfor which started with 32 000 troops initially and ran from december 1996 until december 2004 when operations were then passed onto the european union force althea 60 following the lead of its member states nato began to award a service medal the nato medal for these operations 61 kosovo intervention main articles nato bombing of yugoslavia and kfor german kfor soldiers on patrol in southern kosovo in 1999 kfor msu carabinieri patrols in front of the ibar bridge in mitrovica kosovo 2019 in an effort to stop slobodan milošević s serbian led crackdown on kla separatists and albanian civilians in kosovo the un security council passed resolution 1199 on 23 september 1998 to demand a ceasefire 62 negotiations under us special envoy richard holbrooke broke down on 23 march 1999 and he handed the matter to nato 63 which acted on protecting regional security and started a 78 day bombing campaign on 24 march 1999 64 operation allied force targeted the military capabilities of what was then the federal republic of yugoslavia during the crisis nato also deployed one of its international reaction forces the ace mobile force land to albania as the albania force afor to deliver humanitarian aid to refugees from kosovo 65 the campaign was and has been criticized over its civilian casualties including the bombing of the chinese embassy in belgrade and over whether it had legitimacy the us the uk and most other nato countries opposed efforts to require the un security council to approve nato military strikes such as the action against serbia in 1999 while france and some others specify claimed that the alliance needed un approval 66 the us uk side claimed that this would undermine the authority of the alliance and they noted that russia and china would have exercised their security council vetoes to block the strike on yugoslavia and could do the same in future conflicts where nato intervention was required thus nullifying the entire potency and purpose of the organization recognizing the post cold war military environment nato adopted the alliance strategic concept during its washington summit in april 1999 that emphasized conflict prevention and crisis management 67 milošević finally accepted the terms of an international peace plan on 3 june 1999 ending the kosovo war on 11 june milošević further accepted un resolution 1244 under the mandate of which nato then helped establish the kfor peacekeeping force nearly one million refugees had fled kosovo and part of kfor s mandate was to protect the humanitarian missions in addition to deterring violence 68 in august september 2001 the alliance also mounted operation essential harvest a mission disarming ethnic albanian militias in the republic of macedonia 69 as of 2023 update around 4 500 kfor soldiers representing 27 countries continue to operate in the area 70 war in afghanistan main articles 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