that from March 1999 to March 2004 two rounds of the clamorous NATO eastern expansion were executed with its newly increased member countries covering most of the original Warsaw Pact countries.

• 1999年3月和2004年3月,喧嚷一时的北约东扩已实施了两轮,其新增成员国已覆盖了原华约大多数国家。