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January 17, 2008

Gates irks NATO allies

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has irked NATO allies after telling the LA Times that European allies do not know how to fight insurgencies, often using inappropriate tactics and overly forceful airstrikes, which could be helping the Taliban’s cause. Ironically, as The Guardian points out, this argument is often used by British defense officials to attack American military operations.

This episode stirs up latent tensions and disagreements on how best to fight the burgeoning Taliban insurgency and keep the NATO mission afloat. NATO officials have in the past blamed insufficient U.S. troops at the beginning of the 2001 invasion for the current Taliban resurgence.

Posted by Bipasha Ray on January 17, 2008 at 04:45 PM in ISAF / NATO, U.S. Policy |

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"This episode stirs up latent tensions and disagreements on how best to fight the burgeoning Taliban insurgency and keep the NATO mission afloat."

I agree that this does bring tensions into the open public, although I do not think these tensions were latent in terms of them never being brought up. My guess is that within the chambers of NATO and in meetings between military heads of the US and other NATO allies, discussions of military stategy have long been on the table.

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