NATO in Afghanistan : all for one but anyone for all?

• Main Author: Chan, Samuel
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91773; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/5961
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 2007, violent incidents increased by 27% with the majority in the eastern and southern provinces of Afghanistan. Concurrently, NATO has been plagued by internal disagreements over troop deployments to these restive provinces. As the winter snow thaws, and the wheel of violence prepares to turn once more, NATO need to urgently address this issue of Afghanistan stands at the crossroads-the path toward a failed state an unlikely but less distant scenario.