Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian Labour Party politician who served as prime minister of Norway (2000–01, 2005–13) and secretary-general (2014–24) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is a Dutch politician who served as secretary-general (2004–09) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). De Hoop Scheffer graduated with a degree in law from Leiden University in 1974, having written his thesis on the U.S.
general and was chosen to lead Joint Forces Command, a training and planning unit that oversees theintegrationof the various branches ofmilitary serviceinto acohesivefighting force. After Gen.Stanley McChrystalwas relieved as head of U.S. andNATOforces in Afghanistan in 2010, a command shuffle ...
Dulles, fully aware that theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) would be effective only for the defense of western Europe, leaving theMiddle East, the Far East, and the Pacific islands unprotected, was eager to fill these gaps. He initiated theManila conference in 1954, which resulted in ...
(1950–53). The storm of public controversy erupted more violently after the president removed GeneralDouglas MacArthuras commander of forces in Korea. Acheson subsequently established the policies of nonrecognition of China and aid to the Nationalistregimeof GeneralChiang Kai-shekon Taiwan; later he...