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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of 28 member nations, headquartered in Belgium, that unites the members in a defense pact. A military attack on one of these nations is considered an attack against them all, and each country contributes to the defense. Today, the nations together account for 70 percent of defense spending worldwide.


NATO was formed on April 4, 1949, as a collective defense against a common enemy, the Soviet Union, which tried to expand its communist ideology using military might to central and east European countries after World War II. Major political events in Europe and the Balkans, including the coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1948, became the immediate reasons behind the formation of NATO.

Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, NATO worked to redefine its role and responsibilities in the years after the fall of the common enemy and with the changing political and economic interests of its member countries. NATO proved its mettle several times beginning with the in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, and later by joining the United States in its hunt for Osama bin Laden, parading the armed troops of its member countries in Afghanistan, and by deploying peacekeeping forces in conflict torn regions in and around Europe. Differences do exist between NATO member countries about the inclusion or exclusion of former Soviet Republics and about the role the organization should take in emerging political equations.

After the North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4, 1949, additional countries have joined NATO, bringing the total number of member countries to 28.

Current members of NATO include:

Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark

Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy

Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal

Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey The United Kingdom The United States

List of Secretaries General of NATO
S.N.	Name	Country	Duration
1	Lord Ismay	United Kingdom	4 April 1952 – 16 May 1957
2	Paul-Henri Spaak	Belgium	16 May 1957 – 21 April 1961
3	Dirk Stikker	Netherlands	21 April 1961 – 1 August 1964
4	Manlio Brosio	Italy	1 August 1964 – 1 October 1971
5	Joseph Luns	Netherlands	1 October 1971 – 25 June 1984
6	Lord Carrington	United Kingdom	25 June 1984 – 1 July 1988
7	Manfred Wörner	Germany	1 July 1988 – 13 August 1994
–	Sergio Balanzino†	Italy	13 August 1994 – 17 October 1994
8	Willy Claes	Belgium	17 October 1994 – 20 October 1995
–	Sergio Balanzino†	Italy	20 October 1995 – 5 December 1995
9	Javier Solana	Spain	5 December 1995 – 6 October 1999
10	Lord Robertson	United Kingdom	14 October 1999 – 17 December 2003
–	Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo†	Italy	17 December 2003 – 1 January 2004
11	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Netherlands	1 January 2004 – 1 August 2009
12	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Denmark	1 August 2009 – 30 September 2014
13	Jens Stoltenberg	Norway	1 October 2014 — Present

List of Deputy Secretaries General of NATO
S.N.	Name	Country	Duration
1	Jonkheer van Vredenburch	Netherlands	1952–1956
2	Baron Adolph Bentinck	Netherlands	1956–1958
3	Alberico Casardi	Italy	1958–1962
4	Guido Colonna di Paliano	Italy	1962–1964
5	James A. Roberts	Canada	1964–1968
6	Osman Olcay	Turkey	1969–1971
7	Paolo Pansa Cedronio	Italy	1971–1978
8	Rinaldo Petrignani	Italy	1978–1981
9	Eric da Rin	Italy	1981–1985
10	Marcello Guidi	Italy	1985–1989
11	Amedeo de Franchis	Italy	1989–1994
12	Sergio Balanzino	Italy	1994–2001
13	Alessandro Minuto Rizzo	Italy	2001–2007
14	Claudio Bisogniero	Italy	2007–2012
15	Alexander Vershbow	United States	2012–Present