Afghan War

Introduction

War in Afghanistan in recent history between First, in October and November 2001, the United States, with the military contribution of the Northern Alliance and other western nations (UK, France, Canada, etc...) scheme Taliban. This war is part of the “war against terrorism "declared by the Bush administration following the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington. The purpose of the invasion by the United States and its allies was to capture Osama bin Laden, destroy the organization Al Qaeda which had bases in the country with the blessing of the Taliban, and overthrow them.

The initial attack drove the Taliban from power, allowing the establishment of a provisional government headed by Hamid Karzai following the Bonn Agreement of December 2001. The Taliban then induced a guerrilla against the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which includes the armed forces under command of NATO. Since 2006, the Taliban armed forces are very active. The Afghan government of Karzai, elected president in October 2004, has little legitimacy and did not control in 2006 that the sector Kabul. In August 2008 there were 70,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, 53,000 to 17,000 for ISAF and the Operation Enduring Freedom U.S. and in 2009 some 113,000 foreign troops, including 71,000 Americans, are deployed in the country, and these figures do not include the many employees of private military companies (2,000 men of the British firm Saladin, those from Black water, etc.).. In January 2009 , the think tank Council on International Security and Development said in a report that the Taliban were active in about 72% of Afghan territory, finding contested by the NATO command . (Holmes, pp. 53).

Discussion

In late 2001, the Taliban now controls only a few territories in the south-east and north-east. The NATO then agreed to engage in the Afghan theater with the creation and sending of the ISAF (ISAF in English). This force is placed under the command of NATO. In fact, the command runs smoothly from one country to another from 2001 to 2006: United Kingdom, Turkey (June 2002 - January 2003) Germany v Netherlands (February-August 2003), Canada, France, Turkey, Italy and again the United Kingdom. Since 2007, the command has been echoed by the United States. ISAF is mandated by the United Nations (resolutions 1386, 1413, 1444 and 1510).

The war in Afghanistan consists of a series of related armed conflicts since 1978 in Afghanistan continue. The conflict began in April 1978 with a coup by the Communist People's Party, the revolt of broad segments of the population according to the preferred one. In December 1979, the intervening Soviet Union with military involved in the conflict and set a new communist leadership. With the Soviet invasion began a ten-year war between Soviet-supported central government and resistance groups of the mujahedeen, the parts of the country and an estimated 1.5 million Afghans claimed the lives devastated. After the Soviet withdrawal in the spring of 1989, three years later (1992) there was a collapse of the Afghan communist ...