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Informationen zum Autor Sarwar A. Kashmeri is a senior fellow in the International Security Program of the Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C.; a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, New York; and is recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as an expert on U.S.-European relations. He is the author of America and Europe After 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide, Revised and Updated (Potomac Books, Inc., 2008). Klappentext Features interviews with top military and foreign policy experts in the United States and Europe, including Andrew Bacevich, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, and Gen. Bantz Craddock; Includes discussions of NATO's continuing military relevance in conflicts around the world, especially as it comes face to face with the European Union's own military arm, its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP); Explains NATO's history of protecting and stabilizing Europe, its current fault lines and existential crossroad, and the emergence of the European Union's own military establishment Zusammenfassung On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO’s German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.S. Air Force fighter to destroy two fuel trucks hijacked by theTaliban. Within hours, he was being investigated by German prosecutors for the murder of innocent civilians—collateral damage.
