...new members. We concur with NATO's decision to carry out its collective defense mission by ensuring interoperability, integration, and capability for...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces in member states at this time. Concerning future enlargement, we recommend NATO affirm that it remains...

...foreseeable security environment, NATO will carry out its collective defense and other missions through interoperability, integration and capability for reinforcement,...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces on the territory of new members. Along with these indications of NATO's peaceable intent, the act also...

...nuclear weapons in the new member states. 14 With regard to conventional forces, NATO "reiterates that in the current and foreseeable security environment,...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces." 15 Such "pledges" contain massive loopholes. To start with, it is not clear what is meant by "substantial"...

...facilities or the adaptation of old nuclear storage facilities. On conventional forces, NATO has said that 'in the current and foreseeable security environment,...reinforcement rather than by additional permanent station408 ing of combat forces." These are statements of Alliance policy, and not legally binding...

...the Russian Federation. In a 14 March 1997 statement, the North Atlantic Council asserted that "... the Alliance will carry out its collective defense...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces." This statement succinctly describes the strategy of both NATO and the United States for defending the...

...foreseeable security environment, NATO will carry out its collective defense and other missions through interoperability, integration and capability for reinforcement,...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces on the territory of new members. Along with these indications of NATOs peaceable intent, the Act also...

...troops would be stationed on the territory of the new members, what it got was a pledge by NATO that "in the current and foreseeable security environment,...additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces."17 The United States had wanted NATO to issue the unilateral statements on nuclear weapons...

...the current and foreseeable security environment the Alliance will carry out its collective defence and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability,...capability for reinforcement rather than by additional stationing of permanent substantial combat forces. Even if provisions of the Paris Protocol had been...

...foreseeable security environment, NATO would carry out its collective defence and other missions through interoperability, integration and capability for reinforcement...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces. With all the above-declared restraints. NATO has kept the door open for further enlargement, to include...

...stationed on the territory of the new members, what it got was a pledge by NATO issued on March 14 that "in the current and foreseeable security environment,...permanent stationing of substantial combat forces." In English, the statement meant that NATO had no intention, plan, or need to introduce substantial...