Newsletter 2013/09/13 - Lessons for Wars to Come KABUL/BERLIN (Own report) - German foreign policy specialists are evaluating and learning the "lessons" of the war in Afghanistan, for application in future interventions. While the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr is still in full swing and debates of a continued Western military presence in Afghanistan are ongoing, the outgoing security policy speaker of the FDP parliamentary group, Elke Hoff, enumerates glaring mistakes made by NATO and its allies in the implementation of their occupation policy. She explains that various measures were failures because the West had simply not found it necessary to take the needed "time and patience," or because sufficient "knowledge and respect for the cultural specifics of the country" have been considered superfluous - in the context of a war with innumerable casualties and the most devastating disruption of the lives of the people in the war zone. Hoff makes improvement suggestions for future wars, which include obtaining a better understanding of the "organization, the density and structures" of local populations - if possible by conducting a "census." Above all, however, cooperation between the military and aid as well as development organizations should be greatly intensified - even before entering into the next war. more german-foreign-policy/en/fulltext/58679
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:54:38 +0000
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