Introduction The Warsaw Treaty Organisation, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact (WP), was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The Warsaw… Read More
Introduction The UK Armed Forces maintains a number of units/commands around the globe, including: British Forces Gibraltar The four (4) principle Units and Commands operating out of British Forces Gibraltar are: RAF Gibraltar: https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-gibraltar/. HM Naval Base (including the Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron): https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latestactivity/operations/mediterranean-and-black-sea/gibraltarsquadron) and https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/qhmgibraltar. Gibraltar Defence Police (akin to the Ministry of Defence… Read More
Introduction Operation RYAN (or RYaN, Russian: РЯН, IPA: [rʲæn]) was a Cold War military intelligence programme run by the Soviet Union during the early 1980s when they believed the United States was planning for an imminent first strike attack. The name is an acronym for Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie (Russian: Ракетно-ядерное нападение, “Nuclear Missile Attack”). The purpose… Read More
Introduction Able Archer 83 is the codename for a command post exercise carried out in November 1983 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). As with Able Archer exercises from previous years, the purpose of the exercise was to simulate a period of conflict escalation, culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1… Read More
Introduction Across the Atlantic, nestled within the largest naval city in the world is Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Norfolk, NATO’s newest operational command. Background JFC Norfolk was created in response to NATO’s 2018 review and adaptation of its command structure that identified the Alliance’s need for a stronger linkage between Europe and North America,… Read More
Introduction The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks) was a border skirmish that occurred when US-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on Saturday, 26 November 2011, with both sides later claiming that the other had… Read More
As outlined by Major Shane Burton (RGR), Chief of Staff at the Headquarters Brigade of Gurkhas: “The Brigade of Gurkhas is an integral part of the British Army and as such these troops are indeed part of Nato. Gurkha units have been deployed as part of British Armed Forces supporting numerous Nato operations including Bosnia,… Read More
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