NATO

Bendera ya NATO

Nchi wanachama wa NATO mnamo mwaka 2024 kwa rangi ya buluu.

Uenezi wa NATO hadi mwaka 2020.

Shirika la Mkataba wa Atlantiki ya Kaskazini (kwa Kiingereza: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, kifupi: NATO; kwa Kifaransa: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, kifupi: OTAN) ni ushirikiano wa kujihami wa kambi ya magharibi. Unaunganisha nchi 29 za Ulaya pamoja na Marekani na Kanada. Nchi wanachama zimeahidi kuteteana kama nchi moja inashambuliwa na nchi ya nje.

Makao makuu yapo Brussels.

Historia

NATO ilianzishwa mwaka 1949 wakati wa vita baridi kama maungano ya nchi za Ulaya ya magharibi pamoja na Marekani dhidi ya Umoja wa Kisovyeti na nchi shiriki zake katika Mapatano ya Warshawa. Nchi wanachama wa kwanza walikuwa Marekani, Ubelgiji, Uholanzi, Luxemburg, Ufaransa, Uingereza, Kanada, Ureno, Italia, Norwei, Udeni na Isilandi. 1952 Ugiriki na Uturuki zilijiunga pia zikafuatwa na Ujerumani ya Magharibi.

Baada ya mwisho wa vita baridi nchi zilizokuwa chini ya Umoja wa Kisoveti kama sehemu ya kambi ya kikomunisti zilijiunga na NATO kuanzia mwaka 1999. Ndizo Hungaria, Ucheki, Polandi (1999), halafu Estonia, Latvia, Lituanya, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania (2004), Kroatia, Albania (2009), Montenegro (2017), Masedonia Kaskazini (2020), Ufini (2023), na Uswidi (2024).

Viungo vya Nje

• NATO Official Website
• History of NATO – the Atlantic Alliance - UK Government site
• Basic NATO Documents
• The Globalization of Military Power: NATO Expansion (CRG)
• 'NATO force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade' (The Guardian)
• NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) Official Website Ilihifadhiwa 15 Machi 2006 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) Official Website Ilihifadhiwa 14 Januari 2009 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• Joint Warfare Centre
• NATO Response Force Article Ilihifadhiwa 20 Juni 2003 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• NATO searches for defining role
• Official Article on NATO Response Force
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding NATO Ilihifadhiwa 12 Mei 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• Balkan Anti NATO Center, Greece
• NATO Defense College
• Atlantic Council of the United States Ilihifadhiwa 22 Desemba 2003 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• CBC Digital Archives - One for all: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• NATO at Fifty: New Challenges, Future Uncertainties Ilihifadhiwa 14 Mei 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine. U.S. Institute of Peace Report, Machi 1999
• NATO at 50 Ilihifadhiwa 2 Mei 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• Operation Deny Flight fact sheet Ilihifadhiwa 21 Agosti 2006 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• National Model NATO Ilihifadhiwa 26 Juni 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• The Impact of NATO forces in Afghanistan Ilihifadhiwa 14 Mei 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine. An analysis of the effects of the U.S. led occupation on the political and social climate of Afghanistan.
• ESDI evolution in NATO: The presentation of the Eurocorps-Foreign Legion concept and its Single European Regiment at the European Parliament in June 2003 Ilihifadhiwa 27 Septemba 2006 kwenye Wayback Machine.