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Parent topics
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
Subtopics
Leadership
- Supreme Allied Commander Europe [r]: A U.S. four-star officer, who also leads United States European Command, and is the senior military officer of NATO; currently Admiral James Stavridis [e]
- Supreme Allied Commander Transformation [r]: As of September 2009, this is now a French position, with the incumbent being French GEN Stéphane Abrial with the reintegration of France into NATO; it had been a U.S. four-star officer who was head of United States Joint Forces Command [e]
- Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe [r]: A British general, who is the European commander of NATO military operations in event of mobilization, currently General Sir John McColl [e]
- NATO Chief of Staff [r]: A German general who is the principal staff officer of NATO [e]
Operations
- Kosovo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation ALLIED FORCE [r]: A 1999 NATO air campaign intended to force the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, under Slobodan Milosevic, to cease ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
- International Security Assistance Force [r]: United Nations authorized, North Atlantic Treaty Organization-commanded military and security force in Afghanistan, in both a combat and training role [e]
Other related topics
- United States European Command [r]: U.S. Unified Combatant Command with responsibility for Europe and some nearby areas, such as the Mediterranean Sea; United States Africa Command is a subcommand [e]
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- Albania [r]: Republic in south-eastern Europe (population c. 3.6 million; capital Tirana), with a long Adriatic coastline on the west and land borders with Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece. [e]
- Averell Harriman [r]: American diplomat who served as Asistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs between 1961 and 1963, and then headed the overt U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks while the serious secret negotiations took place between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Known as "the alligator" for his approach to discussion inside the U.S. government. [e]
- Badghis Province [r]: A sparsely populated and less developed province of Afghanistan, strategically important because it provides access to the other Northern provinces [e]
- Balkh Province [r]: The most developed province of northern Afghanistan, whose capital is Mazar-e-Sharif; it has the key route into Uzbekistan [e]
- Central Asia [r]: A geographic area with many definitions, one common one based on the newly independent, predominantly Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union [e]
- Chief of Staff of the Army [r]: Uniformed professional head of the United States Army, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of four-star general rank [e]
- Croatia [r]: South-east European republic (population c. 4.5 million; capital Zagreb), located south of Slovenia and Hungary, west of Serbia, and north and west of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with a long Adriatic coastline to its west. [e]
- Dan McNeill [r]: Retired general, U.S. Army, who was the senior U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan; now a military analyst with Human Rights Watch [e]
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- Hazara [r]: A Mongol-descended people of Afghanistan, speaking a dialect of Persian with Mongol words, and primarily following Shi'a Islam [e]
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- Kabul [r]: Capital of Afghanistan. [e]
- Khost Province [r]: A province of Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area [e]
- Kosovo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mazar-e-Sharif [r]: Afghanistan's second-largest city, in its north [e]
- Paktika Province [r]: A province of eastern Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan [e]
- Sarajevo [r]: The capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [e]
- Southeast Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
- Theater of operations (military) [r]: A geographically defined area in which a single military commander has authority over all military services [e]
- Third United States Army [r]: In United States Central Command, the headquarters organization for United States Army Components. Also designated ARCENT. [e]
- U.S. Department of State [r]: Agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government responsible for foreign policy and the conduct of American diplomacy. [e]
- U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community that are concerned with transnational crime and the drug trade, beyond the jurisdiction of domestic law enforcement [e]
- United Nations Security Council [r]: One of the principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. [e]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
- War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]
- XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: A corps headquarters of the United States Army, long reserved for highly mobile strategic reserve operations but now deployed when the corps level of command is needed [e]
