The SEATO was basically formed to eliminate any chance of communism spreading to Southeast Asia.
SEATO required a unanimous vote from all members, which it never recieved, for involvement in the Vietnam War. So, some of the countries that were part of SEATO participated in the war, on behalf of America's request.
The intervention in Libya is actually a UN mission, authorized by the Security Council of the UN. It just happens to be that the UN members who have chosen to participate are also members of NATO. I believe there is some participation by Dubai as well, which is a non-NATO nation.
neither UN or NATO took part in Vietnam
NATO, SEATO, nor the UN were utilized in the Vietnam War. The war's controversy had affected the members. However, ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States), even though there were some disagreements there to, did take effect. ANZUS, created in '51, called for defense to protect nations in the immediate Pacific area, thus ANZUS responded. SEATO would've done the same thing, however the SEATO members of Britain, France, and Pakistan refused to deploy troops to Vietnam; thus, again, ANZUS had to hold the line.
Scotland is a part of Great Britain, which is a NATO member.
According to wikipedia.org, General Douglas Macarthur was commander of the UN forces during the Korean War until he was relieved by President Harry Truman.
The UN or United Nations I believe is just a conference for all the countries to get together and I think NATO or NATO forces are I think the allied forces or something like that like US, UK etc...
Canada was part of NATO, and officially, NATO was in control of the troops. _____________ NATO had nothing to do with the Korean War. Canada stayed on as part of the UN force, not NATO.
American and NATO and other ISA forces fighting in Afghanistan according to UN articles and bone conference 2001 in Germany. US,NATO and ISA forces are there because to save the world from bloody terrorism And according to UN Afghanistan is a independent country.
NATO, like the UN, was formed because of fear after WWII of a nuclear war or more major violence. -CMoorzy
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