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WiSe 21/22: NATO und Bundeswehr in Afghanistan – Vorgeschichte, Anspruch und Erfahrungen

Klaus Wittmann

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For both NATO and the Bundeswehr, the operation in Afghanistan is the most extensive and demanding foreign mission to date. It is taking place within the framework of the far-reaching responsibility that the international community assumed for the war-ravaged country in the Hindu Kush after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. The primary mandate of the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) was to create a "secure environment" for reconstruction, but the international community left too much of the task to the military. Thus, not least because of the lack of rapid improvement in living conditions and the failure to build up the country's own security forces, the insurgency has regained strength and military logic has once again gained the upper hand. Not least because of eroding support in NATO and partner countries, this mission was replaced in 2015 by the greatly reduced training and advisory mission "Resolute Support", the end of which is also in sight. The prospects for a peaceful, stable future in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the NATO-led troops seem precarious, and the outcome of the negotiations with the Taliban is uncertain. Against this backdrop, the seminar looks at the past history, analyses the initial mistakes made by the international community, discusses the overly ambitious goals of state building, discusses the lessons to be learned, asks what role military intervention can play in today's diffuse security environment, looks at the actors and their interests and examines the "comprehensive approach" of a networked security policy. The question of what this "war-like deployment" means for the Bundeswehr is also explored. close

Suggested reading

Bohnert, Marcel/Neumann, Andy, German Mechanized Infanty on Combat Operations in Afghanistan. Norderstedt: Miles-Verlag 2017. EKD, „Selig sind die Friedfertigen“. Der Einsatz in Afghanistan: Aufgaben evangelischer Friedensethik. Eine Stellungnahme der Kammer für Öffentliche Verantwortung der EKJD. Hannover: EKD-Texte 116 (2013) Justenhoven, Heinz-Gerhard/Afsah, Ebrahim (Hrsg.), Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan in der Sackgasse? Eine politisch-ethische Auseinandersetzung. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2011. Krause, Joachim/Mallory, Charles King (Eds.), Afghanistan, Pakistan and Strategic Change. Adjusting Western Regional Policy. London/New York: Routledge 2014. Naumann, Klaus, Der blinde Spiegel. Deutschland im afghanischen Transformationskrieg. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition 2013. Ders., Einsatz ohne Ziel? Die Politikbedürftigkeit des Militärischen. Hamburg: Hamburger Editin 2008. Rashid, Ahmad, Taliban. Afghanistans Gotteskämpfer und der neue Krieg am Hindukush. Bonn: Lizenzausgabe der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 2010. Ders., Sturz ins Chaos. Afghanistan, Pakistan und die Rückkehr der Taliban. London/Berlin: Weltkiosk 3. Aufl. 2010. Riecke, Henning/Francke, Kevin, Partners for Stability. Involving Neighbours in Afghanistan’s Reconstruction – Transatlantic Approaches. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013. Wittmann, Klaus, Lehren aus dem Afghanistan-Einsatz. In: Die Bundeswehr Februar 2017, S. 14-16. Siehe außerdem Dokumente der Bundesregierung, des Deutschen Bundestags, des Auswärtigen Amts, des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung und der NATO sowie zahlreiche Studien der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik und der International Crisis Group. close