West Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Communist Earth)

The West Atlantic Treaty Organization (WATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance between 18 North and South American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4th April 1965. WATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. WATO Headquarters are located in St. John's, Newfoundland, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Since its founding, the admission of new member states has increased the alliance from the original 5 countries to 18. The most recent member state to be added to WATO is the South American state, Guyana and Suriname (OTL Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname) on 6th August 2015. aspiring members. The combined military spending of all WATO members constitutes over 50% of the global total. Members have committed to reach or maintain defence spending of at least 2% of GDP by 2024.

History
WATO was signed following the Treaty of Manila, the conclusion of the Vietnam War. It was signed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 4th April 1965.

NATO forces sent small numbers of troops to Islas Malvinas in 1982 following a short occupation by the Great British Red Army, in what would later be called the Struggle for Islas Malvinas (although the Great British government refers to it as the "Falklands War," refusing to acknowledge that the islands are Argentinian and subsequently refusing to call them Islas Malvinas, instead calling them the "Falkland Islands").