Units tasked with reconnaissance are armed only for self-defense, and rely on stealth to gather information. Others are well-enough armed to also deny information to the enemy by destroying their reconnaissance elements. Reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) is a type of military operation or military tactics used specifically to probe an enemy's disposition.
Q&A: The Lisbon Treaty. The Lisbon Treaty became law on 1 December 2009, eight years after European leaders launched a process to make the EU more democratic, more transparent and more efficient.Under EU rules, the treaty had to be ratified by all 27 member states before coming into force.The last country to ratify the treaty was the Czech Republic, which completed the process on 3 November 2009.he Lisbon Treaty which succeeded it was rejected by Irish voters in June 2008. But it got overwhelming support in a second referendum in the Irish Republic on 2 October 2009.
The purpose of the NATO, aka North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was to form a union of European and North American countries against the communist Warsaw Pact nations of East â¦ ern Europe and the Soviet Union.t was formed to defend Western Europe against the USSR. â¦ The Warsaw Pact was the USSR's response to NATO. It was similarly an alliance of nations and was made of the USSR and the Communist Eastern European countries it occupied.