Turning Retreat into Victory

New policy brief from Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen. The brief appeared with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Bottom lines
  

• NATO's narrative can be challenged on whether it has truly been fighting international terrorism and whether its accomplishments pertaining to building an Afghan state are sustainable or have qualitative value at all.
• Afghanistan is a positive case of NATO's political adjustment to counterinsurgency warfare and civilian-military integration.
• A credible post-2014 partnership with Afghanistan needs a clear coupling to NATO's security expertise to have a real impact on its domestic politics.

Read the policy brief