Iceland has chosen to be a nation without a standing army, but in the period from 1951 to 2006 outsourced its security needs to the US through a bilateral defence agreement in the framework of NATO cooperation.
Ísland hefur kosið að vera ríki án herliðs, en á árunum 1951 til 2006 nutu Íslendingar verndar bandaríska hersins gegnum tvíhliða varnarsamning í samstarfi við NATO.