Answer: NATO
NATO is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 371 times.
Referring Clues:
- Org. expanding into Eastern Europe
- Org. with a secretary general
- Partnership for Peace grp.
- Kind of forces
- Org. involved in Bosnia
- Eisenhower held a 1950 post in it
- Warsaw Pact counterforce
- Body that includes SHAPE
- Alliance since 1949
- Expanding grp.
- Defense acronym
- Cold war force
- Like some forces in the Balkans
- Peace-keeping grp.
- Security grp.
- Its HQ is in Brussels
- Peacekeeping force in Bosnia
- Org. formed to contain Communism
- Brussels-based org.
- Cold war winner
- Expanding org.
- Like some peacekeepers
- Cold war defense grp.
- Britain's Lord Ismay was its first head
- Org. with a compass star as its symbol
- Org. for Lord Robertson
- Grp. with its HQ in Brussels
- Kind of commander
- Defense org. since 1949
- Much of Eur. is in it
- 1999 air strike authorizer
- Peacekeeping grp.
- Grp. with a secretary general
- Growing alliance
- Force in Eur.
- Grp. that spans an ocean
- Major alliance
- Defense grp.
- The U.S. is in it
- Defense grp. that includes Turkey
- Defense grp. since 1949
- Alliance acronym
- Grp. with forces
- Grp. that outlasted the Warsaw Pact
- Cold war side
- One side in the cold war
- It began in H.S.T.'s administration
- Like some troops
- Grp. founded in Washington on 4/4/1949
- Iceland is part of it: Abbr.
- Alliance since '49
- ___ forces
- Turkey club?
- Org. with troops
- It has ports in Port.
- Grp. conducting Operation Deny Flight
- Group with a secy. gen.
- Org. with peace-keeping forces
- Mil. alliance since 1949
- Spain joined it in 1982
- Brussels-based alliance
- Western alliance, for short
- Alliance with a Brussels H.Q.
- Partnership for Peace gp.
- Kosovo defense gp.
- Bosnia peacekeeping gp.
- Operation Allied Force gp.
- Defense gp. formed in 1949
- Brussels-based alliance (abbr.)
- Org. behind Operation Allied Force in 1999
- DDE's 1950 command
- Brussels-based gp.
- Western defense org.
- Gp. recently joined by Poland
- Western defense gp.
- Alliance headquartered in Brussels
- Forces in Kosovo
- 19-country gp.
- Defense gp. since 1949
- Gp. formed in 1949
- DDE's command, once
- Gp. headed by Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
- Intl. alliance since 1949
- Alliance since 1949 (abbr.)
- Taliban-fighting force (abbr.)
- Gp. headquartered in Brussels
- Kosovo peacekeepers
- Post WWII alliance
- Its H.Q. is in Brussels
- Org. that admitted the Baltic States in March 2004
- Alliance that now includes Slovakia and Slovenia
- Brussels-based intl. alliance
- Intl. group whose initials in English and French are reversed
- Western mil. alliance
- Port. is part of it
- Gp. with 26 members
- Cold War defense gp.
- Peacekeeping alliance
- The U.K. is a member of it
- Org. based in Belgium
- Org. that started with 12 members
- Gp. with headquarters in Brussels
- Its flag has a compass rose on it
- Brussels-based body
- Alb. and Cro. joined it 4/1/2009
- Peacekeeping gp.
- 59-yr.-old alliance
- Belg.-based peacekeepers
- Defense org.
- Peacekeeping org. since 1949
- 26-member defense gp.
- Belgium-based gp.
- Intl. peacekeeping gp.
- Warsaw Pact counterpart
- Partnership for Peace org.
- Intl. defense alliance
- See 36-Down
- Security agcy. since 1949
- Kosovo peacekeeping gp.
- Post-WWII grp.
- Western alliance
- Security org.
- Western pact
- US alliance
- Western alliance: Abbr.
- Pact acronym
- Defense org. since '49
- Defense-alliance acronym
- Brussels-based intl. group
- Western defense grp.
- Intl. group since 1949
- Brussels-based grp.
- Croatia joined it in '09
- Peacekeeping force source
- Post-WWII alliance
- 1949 milit. alliance
- Allied org.
- Peace gp. since 1949
- '49 alliance
- Alliance based in Brussels
- Postwar alliance
- Kosovo War force
- U.S./European force
- Alliance that includes the U.S.
- Alliance est. in 1949
- Defense grp. that includes the U.S.
- Brussels-based defense organization
- 1949 alliance org.
- 1949 alliance
- European defense assn.
- Western postwar alliance
- Org. formed on April 4, 1949
- Defense org. established in 1949
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer's org.
- Western alliance formed in 1949
- Its members include Canada and Luxembourg
- Kosovo peacekeeping group
- Intl. defense org.
- Grp. that includes the U.S.
- Warsaw Pact's Cold War opponent
- 1949 peace org.
- Grp. including Luxembourg, Turkey and Italy
- European defense grp.
- Alliance est. 1949
- Cold war faction
- Its first leader was Lord Ismay, 1952-1957
- Org. with peacekeeping forces
- Defense alliance
- Intl. group with many generals
- Intl. defense gp.
- Lord Ismay was its first Sec. Gen.
- Defense grp. headquartered in Belgium
- Belg.-based peacekeeping gp.
- Intl. alliance
- Peacekeeping gp. since 1949
- Alliance formed under HST
- Military alliance gp.
- Military alliance gp. since 1949
- Security org. with bombers
- Post-WW2 alliance
- Gp. currently headed by ex-Danish PM Anders Rasmussen
- Defense gp.
- Def. alliance
- European defense org.
- Defense pact
- Gp. battling Somali pirates
- Strike authorizer
- Albania and Croatia are the last to have joined it (abbr.)
- Multi-nation defense gp.
- No-fly zone org.
- Defence org.
- Brussels-based defense gp.
- International defense org.
- 2011 Libyan arms embargo enforcement gp.
- Peacekeeping org.
- Defense gp. based in Brussels
- Org. HQ'd in Brussels
- Intl. defense group
- Treaty grp.
- Peacekeepers' org.
- Intl. group
- Peace-keeping org.
- Treaty acronym
- Large mil. alliance
- Mil. alliance
- Gp. with 26 nations
- Big mil. alliance
- 19-nation gp.
- Int'l alliance
- Gp. with a Brussels HQ
- The U.K. is in it, but Ire. is not
- USA alliance
- Berlin Plus agreement party (abbr.)
- Peacekeeping grp. since 1949
- International defense grp.
- Mil. alliance with official languages of English and French
- Grp. with an alphabet
- Defense group founded in 1949
- 1949 defense org.
- Group with forces
- N. Atlantic defence alliance
- Intl. peacekeeping group
- Alliance formed during HST's administration
- Cold War-era alliance
- Gp. that held a summit in Chicago in May of 2012
- Western alliance since 1949
- Atlantic defence org.
- Grp. headquartered in Brussels
- Turkey is part of it
- Warsaw Pact counterpart, once
- Grp. joined by Albania and Croatia in 2009
- Collective defense group
- Org. that added Albania and Croatia in 2009
- Gp. with forces
- It's HQ'd in Brussels
- Alliance born in the Cold War era
- Brussels grp.
- Peace-keeping gp.
- Defender of the West
- Turkey is a part of it
- Grp. whose initials in French are the reverse of its English initials
- Grp. with peacekeeping forces
- Grp. with forces in Afghanistan
- Group first headed by Ike
- International peacekeeping grp.
- Belg.-based alliance
- Brussels-based body, briefly
- Western alliance (4)
- Peacekeeping force
- W. alliance
- Military alliance that still doesn't include Russia
- 28-nation defense grp.
- Grp. whose members account for more than 50% of the world's defense spending
- Partnership for Peace pact (abbr.)
- Peacekeeping acronym
- Gp. that held the 2010 Lisbon summit
- Croatia joined it in 2009
- Group pledged to protect Eur.
- A US alliance
- Defense pact since 1949
- Intl. military alliance
- What 26 countries in Eur. belong to
- Its alphabet expands 10 answers (the letters spell a relevant phrase)
- Turkey club, for short?
- Treaty org.
- Multi-nation defense grp.
- Alliance formed in 1949
- Defense alliance formed in 1949
- North Atlantic defense org.
- U.S. force in Europe
- Cold war alliance
- 2014 Wales summit host
- Eur. nation
- Its flag is dark blue, symbolizing an ocean
- '49 defense alliance
- European bloc
- Defense org. formed in 1949
- U.S./European defense org.
- Icel. is its only member without a standing army
- Mediterranean dialogue grp.
- Western Hemisphere alliance: Abbr.
- Albania joined it in 2009
- Defense alliance since 1949
- Hastings Ismay was selected as its first leader in 1952
- Gp. joined by Croatia in 2009
- Defense alliance based in Brussels
- Defense group: abbr.
- A no-fly zone enforcer
- Org. celebrating 56 years in 2005
- Group with hdqrs. in Belgium
- Grp. that has added 12 members since the end of the Cold War
- Org. in Kosovo
- Defense alliance since 1949, for short
- Alliance HQ'd in Brussels
- Multi-national defense org.
- Alliance that keeps a wary eye on Russia
- International 30-Across
- Multi-country defense group
- Partnership for Peace international gp.
- Group with a secy.-gen.
- Transoceanic alliance since 1949
- Post-W.W. II alliance
- Gp. joined by Montenegro in 2017
- Brussels-based defense grp.
- Alliance with its HQ in Brussels
- Kind of alphabet
- What Croatia joined in 2009
- '49 peacekeeping alliance
- Intl. alliance with a phonetic alphabet
- International alliance
- Brussels-based mil. alliance
- Grp. aligned in 1949
- Org. led by Jens Stoltenberg
- Its alphabet goes from Alfa to Zulu
- 29-member org.
- ___ alphabet
- European defence org.
- Western defense alliance
- Shape is part of it
- Montenegro joined it in 2017
- Grp. founded by 12 countries
- It. is in it
- A UK alliance
- With 115-Across, communication system that's a hint to the answer to each starred clue
- Training Mission-Iraq medal awarder
- Alliance that France rejoined in '09
- Montenegro's grp. since 2017
- Grp. that Ronald Reagan once supported
- Western alliance acronym
- What Ike led after WWII
- Grp. whose alphabet starts Alfa, Bravo, Charlie ...
- November Alpha Tango Oscar
- Alliance that includes the U.S. and U.K.
- Brussels-based mil. alliance since 1949
- Grp. whose alphabet ends with "Zulu"
- Grp. founded to resist Communism
- Alliance based in Brussels: Abbr.
- US alliance with European nations
- Western union
- Org. with a phonetic alphabet
- Alliance formed in April 1949
- Peacekeeping group
- Grp. spelled using its own alphabet at the starts of 19-, 29-, 43- and 50-Across
- "November Alfa Tango Oscar"
- N. Macedonia is its newest member
- 30-country military grp.
- Grp. with peacekeeping operations
- Its alphabet includes delta
- Org. with an alphabet
- Alliance headed by Jens Stoltenberg: Abbr.
- Grp. known as OTAN in France
- Group in which Iceland is the only member without an army
- Phonetic alphabet grp.
- North Macedonia joined it in 2020
- Thirty-country defense grp.
- Alphabet system in which "D" is 3-Down
- Gp. headed by Jens Stoltenberg
- Peacekeeping grp. with an alphabet
- Defense org since 1949
- Gp. whose alphabet includes Romeo and Juliett
- Finland joined it in 2023
- Alliance whose HQ is in Brussels
- "A is for Alfa" org.
- Intl. alliance joined by Finland in 2023
- Alliance that Ukraine seeks to join, in brief
- International grp. with many European members
- ___ phonetic alphabet
- The U.S. is its southernmost member
- Intl. peacekeeping alliance
- Gp. joined by Sweden in 2024
- Org. that Sweden joined in 2024
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- USA Today - January 10, 2024
- New York Times - November 28, 2023
- LA Times - November 18, 2023
- USA Today - September 27, 2023
- LA Times - September 22, 2023
- USA Today - September 15, 2023
- USA Today - September 12, 2023
- New York Times - July 15, 2023
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