When did NATO fail?
For over 40 years NATO has been an organization focused mainly on keeping the status quo in Europe, following the Second World War. But, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, NATO had to find a now role. With the rise of terrorism and power struggles in the Near East, this role turned out to be a never ending cycle of repressing local anti-democratic uprisings, movements, terroristic organizations and trying to strenghten the position of local democratic governments. But not always has such an approach been successful and effective.
As an example of this, I will take NATO Training Mission-Iraq. This was a mission, which tried to organize local democratic police and military forces in a troublesome region in the Middle East, but failed to do so successfully. This would be a great problem for the country in itself, but due to the lack of NATO’s further involvment, more problems have arisen. The shortcomings of NATO Training Mission-Iraq can be divided into two parts – underestimation of the task ahead and failure to complete set goals. …show more content…
This could have been a great boost to the stability of the region, if not for the scale of operations of both the insurgents and of the organization. Although the number of personnel trained by NATO Training Mission-Iraq is in the thousands, the projected number of insurgents is in the tens of thousands. This is a problem of the original mission planning and insufficient time given to NATO by the impetuous actions of the United States in the invasion of Iraq. While help is better sooner than later, it is never good to rely on inadequate planning when the fate of a country and it’s people hang in the
For over 40 years NATO has been an organization focused mainly on keeping the status quo in Europe, following the Second World War. But, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, NATO had to find a now role. With the rise of terrorism and power struggles in the Near East, this role turned out to be a never ending cycle of repressing local anti-democratic uprisings, movements, terroristic organizations and trying to strenghten the position of local democratic governments. But not always has such an approach been successful and effective.
As an example of this, I will take NATO Training Mission-Iraq. This was a mission, which tried to organize local democratic police and military forces in a troublesome region in the Middle East, but failed to do so successfully. This would be a great problem for the country in itself, but due to the lack of NATO’s further involvment, more problems have arisen. The shortcomings of NATO Training Mission-Iraq can be divided into two parts – underestimation of the task ahead and failure to complete set goals. …show more content…
This could have been a great boost to the stability of the region, if not for the scale of operations of both the insurgents and of the organization. Although the number of personnel trained by NATO Training Mission-Iraq is in the thousands, the projected number of insurgents is in the tens of thousands. This is a problem of the original mission planning and insufficient time given to NATO by the impetuous actions of the United States in the invasion of Iraq. While help is better sooner than later, it is never good to rely on inadequate planning when the fate of a country and it’s people hang in the