The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called "the (North) Atlantic Alliance", was an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters were in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constituted a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party (which, at the time of founding, meant the Soviet Union and its allies).
NATO was mainly comprised of Western European nations and the United States and Canada. In 2020[1] the European Federation withdrew from NATO in protest at the launch of the Freedom Star; even before that E.F. began independent development of military equipment incompatible with NATO standards. It is likely that, after the loss of its principal members, NATO faded into irrelevance and disbanded itself; the United States however still possess leading roles in a number of regional military alliances such as NAJSA (founded in 2014) or ANZUS.
Members (Pre-EF withdrawal)[]
- Albania
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
References[]
- ↑ Tom Clancy's EndWar: Official Game Guide, page 4