also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance

its member states agree to mutual defense

constitutes a system of collective defense whereby
Profile in response to an attack by any external party

April 1, 2009 membership was enlarged to 28 with the entrance of Albania and Croatia

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

the organization became drawn into the Balkans

while building better links with former potential enemies to the east
several former Warsaw Pact states
which culminated with
joining the alliance in 1999 and 2004

The first NATO military operation caused by the conflict in the former Yugoslavia

was Operation Sharp Guard, which ran from June 1993–October 1996
of the arms embargo and economic sanctions
provided maritime enforcement
against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

NATO took its first military action by shooting down four Bosnian Serb aircraft

28 February 1994 violating a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone

over central Bosnia and Herzegovina

Balkans helped bring the war in Bosnia to an end

interventions NATO air strikes that year
resulting in the Dayton Agreement

NATO saw its first broad-scale military engagement in the Kosovo War

where it waged an 11-week bombing campaign

24 March 1999 which NATO called Operation Allied Force

against what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
NATO in an effort to stop Serbian-led crackdown on Albanian civilians in Kosovo
OTAN
The conflict ended
11 June 1999 agreed to NATO’
s demands
Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Miloševi
by accepting UN resolution 1244

the alliance mounted Operation Essential Harvest

August–September 2001 ethnic Albanian militias
a mission disarming
in the Republic of Macedonia

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

NATO has attempted to refocus itself to new challenges

has deployed troops to Afghanistan as well as trainers to Iraq

NATO invoked Article 5 of the NATO Charter for the first time in its history.

an attack on any member

The Article says that
shall be considered to be an attack on all

taken by NATO in response to the attacks

The eight official actions Operation Eagle Assist
included
After the Operation Active Endeavour
9/11 attacks naval operation in the Mediterranean Sea
terrorists
Operation Active Endeavour prevent the movement of
designed to weapons of mass destruction
enhance the security of shipping in general

Canada, the United Kingdom

made up mostly of troops from
Turkey and the Netherlands
31 July 2006 a NATO-led force
in the south of Afghanistan
took over military operations
from a U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition

NATO-OTAN.mmap - 05/06/2009 - Carlos Mondragón