This year, NATO turns 75.

We will be marking the accession day of each member via this thread in celebration of how Allies make NATO the strongest and most successful Alliance in history ↓

#1NATO75years 🗓️ #OnThisDay 18 February 1952: Greece and Türkiye join NATO.

This was the first round of enlargement for the Alliance, only three years after its creation

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Troops from #NATO Allies and partners are taking part in a series of long-planned major military exercises stretching from the High North to the Mediterranean to enhance the readiness of NATO forces

Read more ⤵️ [1/8] In March, 20,000 #NATO troops, plus Finland 🇫🇮 and Sweden 🇸🇪, train to defend Norway 🇳🇴 in exercises #JointViking23 and #JointWarrior - the largest drills in Europe’s Arctic this year [2/8]

❝I’d always been a journalist… on day two of Russia’s full-scale invasion, I went and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.❞

This is Pavlo's story ⤵️

[1/10] A true people's army

❝It contained ordinary workers and company directors, parents and their children, schoolteachers, theatre people and new university graduates.❞

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The new #StrategicConcept is the blueprint for the Alliance in a more dangerous and competitive world.

It sets out #NATO’s priorities, core tasks, and approaches for the next decade.

A thread 🧵 [1/15] It reaffirms #NATO’s key purpose of ensuring our collective defence and defines the Alliance’s three core tasks.

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