This should set NATO Headquarters buzzing.
NATO High Commander Issues Illegitimate Order to Kill Link
First thought was that it was a crap article and that somebody was making hay but then the Reuters UK showed up with an article titled âNATO orders leak probe after Afghan drug reportâ
Little hard to say itâs not a real report when you are ordering a probe into how it happened to get released into the public domain. And Reuters is a little more reputable than say the Daily Mail
Pretty far reaching ramifications of the policy change if true. What I donât understand is after so many years of learning that kinetic approaches to COIN are not necessarily the best approach, why is SACEUR (Craddock )trying to escalate this thing in this manner? We can already see how some of the subordinate NATO commanders (including another American) feel about the policy change from the article.
Iâll wager that this is normal NATO policy development and that the âorderâ was actually a draft sheet sent out for comment, before he submitted it formally to the Military Committee for endorsement. The quoting of a response from McKiernanâs Kabul headquarters tends to reinforce that notion, of policy development, and that this was not actually a real order. Of course that doesnât make nearly as good headlines.
Edited to get the links to work
NATO High Commander Issues Illegitimate Order to Kill Link
First thought was that it was a crap article and that somebody was making hay but then the Reuters UK showed up with an article titled âNATO orders leak probe after Afghan drug reportâ
Little hard to say itâs not a real report when you are ordering a probe into how it happened to get released into the public domain. And Reuters is a little more reputable than say the Daily Mail
Pretty far reaching ramifications of the policy change if true. What I donât understand is after so many years of learning that kinetic approaches to COIN are not necessarily the best approach, why is SACEUR (Craddock )trying to escalate this thing in this manner? We can already see how some of the subordinate NATO commanders (including another American) feel about the policy change from the article.
Iâll wager that this is normal NATO policy development and that the âorderâ was actually a draft sheet sent out for comment, before he submitted it formally to the Military Committee for endorsement. The quoting of a response from McKiernanâs Kabul headquarters tends to reinforce that notion, of policy development, and that this was not actually a real order. Of course that doesnât make nearly as good headlines.
Edited to get the links to work
