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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become history’s first global army. Never before have soldiers from so many states served together.
Troops from, Columbia, Mongolia, South Korea, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the U.S. serve along side with a good 20 other countries serve under the command of NATO. Almost 50 nations and 5 continents serving under the same unified command.
Two years after the 9/11 attacks in NY and DC, NATO activated Article 5, in which the parties agree than an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.
The war against Afghanistan marked NATO’s transformation into a global war fighting machine. Sent into Afghanistan, include troops from Bulgaria, Czech, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Armania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhastan, Pyrgyzstan as well as ten European nations. Along with the 28 original members of NATO.
The common language used in joint overseas operations in NATO is English.
The Afghan war has also led to more countries joining NATO such as Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea.
