Post-Cold War crises
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Developments in global politics have created new challenges for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Although Soviet-backed communism has ceased to be a threat, smaller conflicts from other parts of the globe have surfaced. Such a conflict was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, where NATO members participated as individual nations and not as representatives of the organization. Another point of conflict with greater implications for NATO are the ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1992
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Anti-Soviet mission
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created for the sole purpose of countering the Soviet expansionist threat to post-World War 2 Europe. Member countries agreed to their mutual defense as embodied in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty which specifies that an armed attack against any member country would be considered an attack against all. Acquisition of nuclear capabilities by the Soviets further strengthened the need for the existence of the alliance.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1992
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NATO reforms
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The new political order prevailing in Europe after the end of the Cold War has created a need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to revise its strategic thinking. The decrease in the likelihood of hostilities has prompted strategic planners to dismantle fixed installations in favor of rapid deployment type force units which would be mobilized to respond to emergencies as they arise.
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ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1992
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