The NATO alliance has grown at the summit to include two new members, Albania and Croatia.
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In part it is simply that he wants Europe to pull its weight in the Nato alliance.
Politically, it will solidify the NATO alliance if all its members can be brought within this defense system.
As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, he helped the NATO alliance prepare for the new missions of our time.
Both countries are former Soviet satellites which now belong to the NATO alliance.
The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was dubbed a "marionette court" of the NATO alliance, by the lawyers.
"The Nato alliance will be stronger with Lithuania's presence, " said Mr Bush.
But the United States will be discussing steps to take with its allies in the NATO alliance and the European Union, they said.
He didn't really add a lot to his written statement from last night, beyond more praise for the Libyan people and the Nato alliance.
My sense is, is that all the parties in Europe, all the members of the NATO Alliance, want to have a strong, cooperative relationship with Russia.
Back then, the NATO alliance held firm in the face of an all-out Soviet campaign to block the basing of such weapons and destabilize the governments involved.
In the past Turkey tended to see itself as an eastern bulwark of the NATO alliance, whereas its Middle Eastern neighbours were viewed as threats to be contained.
Vindication of the basic premises of the NATO alliance, i.e.
Today, forces from more than 40 countries, including members of the NATO Alliance, are bravely serving side-by-side with you against the extremists who want to bring down the free government you've established.
Bush will visit Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Poland and Slovenia in his first visit to Europe as president, and his first group interaction with leaders of the European Union and the NATO alliance.
That would have meant a powerful boost to the confidence and solidarity of the NATO alliance, whose Eastern European members could especially use it in the face of ever-more aggressive Russian behavior.
But by thumping down Russia's military fist in the Caucasus, he has made clear that Russia will not tolerate excessive signs of independence from its neighbours, including bids to join the NATO alliance.
Since 1957 was the year of Sputnik, and since West Germany was a key member of the NATO alliance, this was not a good time to imply that there was no real Soviet threat to Western Europe.
In 1983, the issue was whether the NATO alliance would proceed with its agreed plan to deploy hundreds of Pershing II ballistic missiles and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five Western European nations (collectively known as Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces or INF).
Russia has become a sort of guest member of the NATO alliance under an arrangement that will afford it considerable opportunity to influence that organization's deliberations but, in theory at least, no veto over decisions taken by the other, full- fledged members.
This may be the most important of these meetings since 1983, when the NATO alliance was confronting strenuous opposition from the last KGB thug to run the Kremlin Yuri Andropov to the American-underwritten plan to deploy Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five West European countries.
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This may be the most important of these meetings since 1983, when the NATO alliance was confronting strenuous opposition from the last KGB thug to run the Kremlin -- Yuri Andropov -- to the American-underwritten plan to deploy Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five West European countries.
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Several days later, at a press conference with Karzai, the newly appointed secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called for NATO countries to contribute more troops to support the Afghan government.
At Turkey's request, the NATO military alliance deployed several Patriot missile batteries to protect Turkish border cities from the threat of Syrian missile attacks.
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Some German troops from the NATO defence alliance's peacekeeping force in Afghanistan were also being sent.
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In recent months, the NATO military alliance has responded to a Turkish government request for assistance by deploying Patriot missile batteries around major cities close to the Syrian border.
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As he rose and then clung to power by resurrecting old nationalist grudges and inciting dreams of a Greater Serbia, Mr. Milosevic became the prime engineer of wars that pitted his fellow Serbs against the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Albanians of Kosovo and ultimately the combined forces of the entire NATO alliance.
"The targeting policy of Nato and the alliance is absolutely clear, " he told the BBC.
The US-Nato alliance has had to deploy 150, 000 troops and the war has spawned the Pakistani Taliban, which the Pakistani army did not initially see as a danger but now sees as a major threat.
Russia is not a NATO member but works with the alliance via the NATO-Russia Council.
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