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The US solicited support from NATO following the September 11, 2001 attacks under Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty. This article requires NATO member states to aid any member state that has been attacked. This was the first and only time that Article 5 has been invoked.
Democracy.
The "Truman Doctrine" stated that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This could be interpreted as stating that US foreign policy should support worldwide democracy.
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The USSR created their WARSAW Pact to counter NATO.
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In support of Nato's peacekeeping mission.
No, the US has a representative democracy.
The US national security authority for NATO is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It's important to the U.S. because it gives us more space. We use NATO to have contacts and support from other countries as well as the help from them if we get attacked. I'm going to jump to my first sentence real quick. It gives us more space. How? Well one way is that we can us some of their space to store some of our equipment or men. NATO's also good because we gain new knowledge, religion aspects, and technology.
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