Afghanistan 2015 onwards: Moderator's Notice
There is a new NATO Mission in Afghanistan, Operation Resolute Support, with twelve contributors (down from fifty with ISAF) and with a declared non-combat mission. The USA retains a separate CT mission. For a brief outline see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30616380 and from NATO:http://www.nato.int/cps/da/natohq/topics_113694.htm
Currently there are 345 threads in this arena, in the next few days I will start to close them down, starting in 2005. There maybe be some merging (actually very little done. Merged threads on securing the Afghan border and Helmand Province - not UK & USMC, ANSF).
Several new threads will be created for 2015, currently I am thinking of the following themes:
- ANSF performance 2015 onwards
- Afghan politics (catch all, so includes talking to the Taliban)
- The NATO mission: concerned watchers and trainers
- Non-NATO involvement (India, Iran, Pakistan, China etc)
- Reflections on the past (assessment of ISAF etc up to 2015)
I do appreciate that there can be cross-over between the topics, notably how the NATO mission interacts with the ANSF and Afghan politics.
Any suggestions are welcome.
The US component: Operation Freedom’s Sentinel
From a short WaPo article on the US mission:
Quote:
Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement Sunday that will include two core components: working with allies and partners on Resolute Support, and continuing “counterterrorism operations against the remnants of Al-Qaeda to ensure that Afghanistan is never again used to stage attacks against our homeland.
Link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/c...n-afghanistan/