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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, Karl-Heinz Lather, who took the job on 13 September 2007 [e]
Operations
- Kosovo [r]: Country in south-eastern Europe which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 - not officially recognised by the United Nations. [e]
- 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]
- 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]
- French nuclear program [r]: Civilian and military nuclear programs of France, a declared nuclear weapons power [e]
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- 101st Airborne Division [r]: A division of the U.S. Army, originally created as airborne, but now air assault with permanently assigned helicopter mobility [e]
- 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]
- David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
- 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]: Country in south-eastern Europe which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 - not officially recognised by the United Nations. [e]
- 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]: A region of the world located on the South Eastern part of the Eurasian plate as well as the Indian subcontinent. [e]
- 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]
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- U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Security Council [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War on terror [r]: Add brief definition or description
- XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description