The USA does its best not to make it look like a US-run operation. The Secretary-General of NATO invariably is European (but will only be appointed with US consent), and officially all NATO partners are equals. But European countries have cut back heavily on their defense spendings, and most of their reduced armies struggle to meet even basic targets in, for example, international peacekeeping operations. What hardware they have, from bullets to fighter planes, differs per country, as does defense policy. This makes the USA the dominant partner and de facto leader.
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NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War
NATO - the greatest influence in this alliance was the US. Most of West Europe was in NATO Warsaw Pact - led by the USSR. Most of east Europe was in this alliance.
the NATO was formed in 1955
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The Warsaw Pact was the name of the alliance established by European communist nations in response to NATO.
The original NATO members were:BelgiumCanadaDenmarkFranceIcelandItalyLuxembourgNetherlandsNorwayPortugalUnited KingdomUnited States.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
Turkey and Greece were admitted to NATO in 1952.
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