LEADER 02965nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910462184103321 005 20220222235425.0 010 $a0-8047-8494-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784948 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234159 035 $a(EBL)997335 035 $a(OCoLC)815388445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721300 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407671 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721300 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687892 035 $a(PQKB)11574924 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC997335 035 $a(DE-B1597)564159 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784948 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL997335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10590942 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769664 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234159 100 $a20120406d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNATO in Afghanistan$b[electronic resource] $ethe liberal disconnect /$fSten Rynning 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-8237-7 311 0 $a0-8047-8238-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 The Nature of the Atlantic Beast --$t2 A Benevolent Alliance --$t3 NATO and Afghanistan --$t4 Original Sins --$t5 Crisis and Comeback --$t6 The Reckoning --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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 the military campaign prosecuted to bring it about. He concludes that, while NATO has made it to the point in Afghanistan where the war no longer has the potential to break it, the alliance is, at the same time, losing its own struggle to define itself as a vigorous and relevant entity on the world stage. To move forward, he argues, NATO allies must recover their common purpose as a Western alliance, and he outlines options for change. 606 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfghan War, 2001-2021 676 $a958.104/7 700 $aRynning$b Sten$f1967-$0888064 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462184103321 996 $aNATO in Afghanistan$92485651 997 $aUNINA