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NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION ALLIED AIR COMMAND
Air and Space Power for the Alliance on the European continent is delivered by NATO’s Allied Air Command, the single service command for all Alliance air and space matters. It provides Command and Control of NATO’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence mission, which incorporates all measures that contribute to the deterrence of any air and missile threat or to reduce or nullify the effectiveness of hostile air action.
Operating from four locations in Europe, 1,150 airmen and women from more than 30 NATO member and partner nations support 24/7 full spectrum Air and Space operations, the backbone of credible deterrence and defence for the Alliance. To support an adapted structure, the number of personnel will increase to more than 1,300.
Headquarters Allied Air Command is located at Ramstein, Germany, within Ramstein Air Force Base, which has been home to a NATO Airpower headquarters since 1974. The headquarters is responsible for planning, exercising and executing Integrated Air and Missile Defence Operations within NATO’s European area of responsibility from peacetime through to conflict.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 31 member states, 29 European and 2 North American.
Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implemented the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, DC on 4 Apr 1949. NATO is a collective security system: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. The organization’s motto is animus in consulendo liber (Latin for “a mind unfettered in deliberation”).
NATO’s main headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium, while NATO’s military headquarters are near Mons, Belgium. The alliance has targeted its NATO Response Force deployments in Eastern Europe, and the combined militaries of all NATO members include around 3.5 million soldiers and personnel. Their combined military spending as of 2022 constituted around 55 percent of the global nominal total. Moreover, members have agreed to reach or maintain the target defence spending of at least two percent of their GDP by 2024.
NATO formed with twelve founding members and has added new members nine times, most recently when Finland joined the alliance on 4 Apr 2023, exactly 74 years after NATO’s formation. Following the acceptance of its application for membership in June 2022, Sweden is anticipated to become the 32nd member, with its Accession Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty now in the process of being ratified by the existing members. In addition, NATO currently recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ukraine as aspiring members. Enlargement has led to tensions with non-member Russia, one of the twenty additional countries participating in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program. Another 19 countries are involved in institutionalized dialogue programs with NATO.