Discover the history and purpose of NATO. Learn about the collective defence principle (Article 5) and see the full list of ...

The 75th anniversary of NATO is a momentous occasion, marking one of the longest-lived international partnerships in history. Yet its Washington Summit showed that the Atlantic alliance has forgotten ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared on April 12 that NATO “should have been dissolved” following the collapse of the Soviet Union, claiming the alliance has lost its original purpose and ...

Undersecretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby outlined his vision for a “NATO 3.0″ to replace “NATO 2.0” in response to changing world dynamics. Speaking at the NATO Defense Ministerial, Colby ...

NATO’s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance’s early days. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, last week China was a big part ...

Back in 1949, after World War II, NATO's first-ever secretary general, Lord Ismay, quipped that the alliance was created to, quote, "keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down." As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NATO was founded in 1949 to counter the threat posed to European security by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Now, some say ...

Vladimir Putin on Thursday came as close to threatening war with the United States and Europe as he has ever done. Before dismissing his warnings as more bluster, Washington needs to seriously ...

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