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Afghanistan

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States would lead to the first Article 5 invocation in NATO history and its longest out of area mission, Afghanistan. In this episode we discuss the initial US mission in Afghanistan with the Global War on Terror, initial NATO involvement with International Security Assistance Forces and the shift to Afghanistan’s current day Resolute Support Mission.

HOSTS: Dr. Stella Adorf, Master Sergeant Alex Burnett, Dr. Linda Risso

GUESTS: Mark Laity, Carmen Romero

SOURCES:

VIDEO: Return to Hope
http://www.returntohope.com/

VIDEO: NATO in Afghanistan: What is ISAF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNSCS11tsuo

Declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, 6 September 2006
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_50575.htm?selectedLocale=en

ISAF’s Strategic Vision, 3 April 2008
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_8444.htm?selectedLocale=en

Summit Declaration on Afghanistan, 4 April 2009
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_52836.htm?selectedLocale=en

NATO Afghan First Policy, 23 April 2010
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_62851.htm?selectedLocale=en

Resolute Support Nations and Afghanistan, 1 December 2015
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_125449.htm?selectedLocale=en

Joint Statement on the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, 12 July 2018
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_156625.htm?selectedLocale=en