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The Nato Effort in Afghanistan
Recent months have seen key changes in the leadership of NATO and a renewed public focus on its operation in Afghanistan. Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen took over as secretary-general of NATO earlier this month and named Afghanistan as his number one priority, noting his commitment to preventing Afghanistan “from becoming again the Grand Central Station of international terrorism.” At the military level, U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal assumed command of both the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) in June 2009 and has shifted the emphasis of the mission towards protecting the Afghan civilian population.
August 18, 2009
Jesse Daniels
War and Peace - August 2009