Strategic support to security sector reform in Afghanistan, 2001-2010

The are multilateral and undertaken in the name of divergent aims of Bonn and Berlin highlight the main an international organization or a coalition of the argument of this paper: the operational programming of willing, “the minnows” want their say at the table the latter will fail in the absence of the coherent strategic and “the whales” share the space with suspicion and vision that the former a [...] The advisers at the to the rather hazy range of councils, such as the Council time failed to stop, and may indeed have on occasion of Ministers or the Supreme National Security Council, encouraged, the development of disparate ideas where the president and a changeable attendance concerning the purpose of the ONSC. [...] All these administrative arrangements and structures In its coordinating function, the principal duties of the quickly revealed the glaring absence of an agreed and ONSC were fourfold: first, the coordination of security useable NSP and its accompanying NSS — basically provision so that gaps and overlaps could be eliminated the one being the “what?” the other the “how?”35 In in the interests of ef [...] The ONSC was finally granted purpose of the NSP in a report to the Deputy NSA along (at least in principle) the functional roles that would the following lines: compensate for the deficit of strategy to guide the range •. The NSP sets out some significant changes in the of operational security sector activities already underway. [...] In order to be accepted elsewhere in government from the authors’ experience working with the ONSC, and eventually in the provinces, the ONSC needed the and will draw on the implications of the case studies to following: explore the positioning of operations within the strategic •. strong and consistent support from the president framework and some of the constraints on strategic-level and firm co