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Author Rynning, Sten

Title NATO in Afghanistan : the Liberal Disconnect
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents The nature of the Atlantic beast -- A benevolent alliance -- NATO and Afghanistan -- Original sins : a benevolent alliance goes to war, 2001-2005 -- Crisis and comeback : confronting the insurgency, 2006-2008 -- The reckoning : searching for a strategic purpose, 2008-2011
Summary The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and explains how NATO at first faltered but then improved its operations to become a critical enabler for the U.S. surge of 2009. However, he also uncovers a serious and enduring problem for NATO in the shape of a disconnect between high liberal hopes for the new Afghanistan and a lack of realism about
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization
SUBJECT North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast
Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021.
NAVO.
Afghanistan.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804784948
0804784949