Answer: NATO

Nato is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted over 98 times. You can view all possible clues for this answer below.

Clues

• What 26 countries in Eur. belong to
• Grp. whose members account for more than 50% of the world's defense spending
• Western mil. alliance
• Grp. with forces in Afghanistan
• Grp. with peacekeeping forces
• Grp. whose initials in French are the reverse of its English initials
• Defender of the West
• Grp. joined by Albania and Croatia in 2009
• Peacekeeping grp.
• Western alliance since 1949
• Grp. with an alphabet
• Defense acronym
• The U.K. is in it, but Ire. is not
• Port. is part of it
• Strike authorizer
• Turkey club?
• Cold war force
• Defense grp. headquartered in Belgium
• Intl. group with many generals
• Defense grp. since 1949
• Intl. group whose initials in English and French are reversed
• Alliance since '49
• Brussels-based alliance
• Western alliance, for short
• Spain joined it in 1982
• Its HQ is in Brussels
• Org. with peace-keeping forces
• Warsaw Pact counterforce
• Mil. alliance since 1949
• Brussels-based org.
• Group with a secy. gen.
• Grp. conducting Operation Deny Flight
• It has ports in Port.
• Cold war side
• Org. with troops
• Cold war winner
• Grp. founded in Washington on 4/4/1949
• Like some troops
• Iceland is part of it: Abbr.
• ___ forces
• Grp. that outlasted the Warsaw Pact
• It began in H.S.T.'s administration
• One side in the cold war
• Defense grp.
• Alliance acronym
• Grp. with forces
• The U.S. is in it
• Expanding grp.
• Growing alliance
• Grp. that spans an ocean
• Major alliance
• Grp. with a secretary general
• Force in Eur.
• Grp. with its HQ in Brussels
• Org. for Lord Robertson
• 1999 air strike authorizer
• Much of Eur. is in it
• Defense org. since 1949
• Org. with a compass star as its symbol
• Britain's Lord Ismay was its first head
• Partnership for Peace grp.
• Kind of commander
• Expanding org.
• Cold war defense grp.
• Like some peacekeepers
• Defense group since 1949
• Security grp.
• Peacekeeping force in Bosnia
• Org. formed to contain Communism
• Alliance since 1949
• Peace-keeping grp.
• Like some forces in the Balkans
• Body that includes SHAPE
• Eisenhower held a 1950 post in it
• Org. with a secretary general
• Org. expanding into Eastern Europe
• Org. involved in Bosnia
• Kind of forces

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