All 13 Uses
NATO
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Throughout the oceans of the world, and especially astride the passages that Soviet submarines had to cross to reach the open sea, the United States and other NATO countries had deployed gangs of highly sensitive sonar receptors.†
Chpt 4.
- A week earlier, she had participated in the NATO war game NIFTY DOLPHIN, which had been postponed several days because the worst North Atlantic weather in twenty years had delayed other ships detailed to it.†
Chpt 5.
- He and the Swiftsure had just bested a team of NATO ASW experts, men whose countries depended on their ability to keep the sea-lanes open.†
Chpt 5. *
- On the other hand, HMS Invincible was just over here for the NATO exercise, sailed from Norfolk Monday night.†
Chpt 6.
- This perennial thorn in NATO's southern flank had flared up a few weeks earlier when a Greek student had run over a Turkish child with his car and been killed by a gang minutes later.†
Chpt 6.
- "I seem to recall we just ran a NATO exercise, Admiral," Pelt noted.†
Chpt 6.
- This could be the beginning of a conventional war against NATO, its first step being interdiction of the sea lines of communication.†
Chpt 6.
- He had once been a marine second lieutenant, and his active career had ended after only three months when his platoon's helicopter had crashed on Crete during a NATO exercise.†
Chpt 7.
- The strategy of the NATO countries was a direct consequence of this technological limitation.†
Chpt 10.
- In a major war with the Soviets, NATO would use the Greenland—Iceland—United Kingdom SOSUS barrier as a huge tripwire, a burglar alarm system.†
Chpt 10.
- The NATO mission would be to maintain the Atlantic Bridge and continue transoceanic trade, and the obvious Soviet mission would be to interdict this trade.†
Chpt 10.
- NATO strategy behind the SOSUS barriers, then, was to assemble large convoys, each ringed with destroyers, helicopters, and fixed-wing aircraft.†
Chpt 10.
- Or the NATO armies that threaten us—no!†
Chpt 12.
Definitions:
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(1)
(NATO) North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a military alliance established in 1949 to protect member nations from Soviet armies
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)