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NATO Watch Observatory No Promoting a more transparent and accountable NATO No.20 – April 2011 Welcome to NATO Watch’s monthly Observatory: the only online publication dedicated entirely to news and independent commentary on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide. If you are short on time – go straight to the recommended reading, marked ♠♠ Contents: www.natowatch.org NATO Watch Editorial: p2 • The NATO Watch website is one year old. Libya: NATO must stick to R2P principles In our first 12 months we had 14,385 unique • Afghanistan: transition to what? visitors and over 887,000 hits viewed from • Special Forces need Special Oversight more than 90 countries. The highest • Droning on…. proportion of visitors were based in • NATO tanker driver in Pakistan- worst job in the Belgium (NATO watching NATO Watch, world? perhaps), with the UK, US, Germany, Russia, China, Canada and the News, Commentary & Reports p4 Netherlands among the other leading Afghanistan-Pakistan visitor nations. In addition, our web site has Arab Protests(and the implications for NATO’s been selected to participate in the British Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Library’s web archiving programme. Cooperation Initiative) Nominated websites are considered to be of long term research value and will Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management & remain permanently available to Humanitarian Relief ; Cyber Security researchers in the future as hardware and Defence Budgets, Procurement & Private Military software change over time. Companies If you value our work, please consider Enlargement and Partnerships making a donation. NATO Watch Exercises: Joint Warrior operates on a small budget and in order Iran; Libya to provide independent and objective oversight and analysis, we rely on the Maritime Security & Piracy support of private individuals and Missile Defence foundations. Please click on the picture NATO Defence Ministers Meeting below to find out how you can make a NATO Parliamentary Assembly donation. NATO-Russia Relations ; Nuclear Weapons Transparency and Accountability - Wikileaks Upcoming Events p20 Security News from NATO Member States p20 Canada; Czech Republic; France; Italy; Lithuania Netherlands; Poland; Turkey ; UK; United States IDEAS, FEEDBACK, SUGGESTIONS? p23 NATO Watch conducts independent monitoring and analysis of NATO and aims to increase transparency, stimulate parliamentary engagement and broaden public awareness and participation in a progressive reform agenda within NATO . NATO Watch website www.natowatch.org Subscription to NATO Watch Observatory is free of charge To start a subscriptio n go to: Start NATO Watch Observatory NATO Watch Editorial: NATO Watch Editorial April 2011 There was undoubtedly a strong anti-war case for • Libya: NATO must stick to R2P principles staying out of Libya, but there was, and still is, a stronger pro-peace case for limited military • Afghanistan: transition to what? intervention based upon a responsibility to protect • Special Forces need Special Oversight civilians. But the limits of the Libyan intervention • Droning on…. need to be clearly articulated and followed to the • NATO tanker driver in Pakistan- worst letter. job in the world? For the full article, click here Libya: NATO must stick to R2P principles Afghanistan: transition to what? The UN-authorised intervention in Libya has Nearly two-thirds of Americans now say the war in thrown up complex ethical issues of paramount Afghanistan is no longer worth fighting, the importance, as well as misgivings about NATO highest proportion yet opposed to the conflict, assuming command of the military dimension. It is according to a recent Washington Post-ABC an intervention that has both an overt face and a News poll . And even more revealing, nearly three- hidden face, and behind every rationalization quarters of the American public thinks a seemingly another rationalization, often of quite a substantial number of US forces should be different order than the declared protection of withdrawn from Afghanistan this summer. But Libyan civilians. fewer than four in 10 think it will happen. This is What started out as an action that observed the hardly surprising given media reports that the first majority of the norms of international law and Americans to come home are expected to be engineers and support troops, rather than combat multilateral consultation is now in danger of resolution calling for the immediate reverting to type. The heavy-handed application of soldiers. (A withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan unilateral US, French and British muscle and talk was rejected by the House of of regime change, arming the rebels and even assassinating Representatives by 328 to 93 Gaddafi risks breaking the earlier in the month, although fragile international consensus more US lawmakers backed it and many of the political gains than a similar resolution a year secured through UNSC ago which drew only 65 resolution 1973 – including the supporters). historic embrace of the Similarly only a quarter of the responsibility to protect (R2P) British public think Britain’s principles agreed in 2005. approach in Afghanistan is (A rebel mans an anti-aircraft gun in working, according to a new B.R.Q/flickr) poll , and eighty-three per cent believe Afghanistan | رق :Ras Lanuf, 8 March – photo credit will still be at war in 2014 when all foreign combat With NATO assuming command of all military troops are due to have left and the process of operations, the Alliance must stick to the letter of transition to Afghan security forces is supposed to the UN resolution and R2P principles. Five crucial be complete. These findings, which would steps are required: probably be replicated across ISAF troop 1. The use of "all necessary measures" to contributing countries, signal a growing challenge protect civilian areas from attack by Libyan for President Obama and other allied leaders as government forces should only continue as they decide how quickly to pull military forces from long as the attacks on civilians persist or are Afghanistan this summer and beyond. threatened 2. Diplomatic efforts should be stepped up to The start of the process of transition to Afghan achieve an early unconditional ceasefire and lead was announced by President Karzai on 22 then work towards a lasting political March, with Afghan national security forces taking settlement charge of security operations in seven districts 3. NATO should abide by clear and transparent and provinces in the country. But with many rules of engagement Afghans having little trust in the forces that are 4. Parliaments in member states should hold meant to protect them, a new UK campaign their governments accountable for NATO coalition, Together Afghanistan , doubts that a actions in Libya transition from international troops to Afghan 5. Open and careful monitoring of civilian forces will be enough to make Afghanistan stable. casualties Instead, the coalition, which includes Oxfam, 2 CARE International UK, Christian Aid and Afghanaid, is calling for a fresh approach focusing But it is not just US special forces that need to be squarely on what Afghans need to build a better, reigned-in. So-called ‘special forces’ across the more peaceful future – and what the international Alliance are more active today than at any time community since the Cold War, and several national defence needs to do to reviews earmark more resources and wider roles support them. for them. While they undoubtedly have a role to This includes play in policing a dangerous world, as Richard better protection Norton-Taylor writes about the British SAS, “the for Afghan ridiculous cloak of invisibility that shrouds the civilians caught activities of our special forces results in a up in the conflict, consequent lack of accountability”. In short, NATO full transparency special forces need special oversight. on civilian casualties, open Droning on….. and accountable aid spending, An issue linked to the use of special forces and and a push towards a comprehensive political just as likely to be fuelling extremism and anti- settlement to end the conflict as set out in an open western sentiment is the use of armed drones. letter to the UN Secretary General . Signed by, Approximately 40 people were killed in mid-March among others, former US Ambassador to in a US drone strike in the Datta Khel area of Afghanistan, Dr Robert Finn, two former UK North Waziristan . Although it was initially claimed Foreign office ministers, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown that the targets were ‘militants’ discussing plans to and David Miliband, and former NATO Secretary send fighters across the border into Afghanistan, General Lord Robertson, the letter calls for a the head of Pakistan's army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez political settlement to be “pursued with the same Kayani, later issued a rare and strong drive and leadership currently devoted to the condemnation, stating that the strike "carelessly military front”. and callously targeted" a jirga of "peaceful citizens". Unnamed US officials, obviously not That would be the kind of drive and leadership quite buying-in to the ‘hearts and minds’ agenda, displayed by US Secretary of Defense Robert dismissed the claim, commenting that those killed Gates who announced that a negotiating team were " not the local men's glee club ", "not a charity would be dispatched from Washington to work out car wash", and were not " gathering for a bake a “strategic partnership” with the Afghans. He also sale, they were terrorists ". This drone strike was indicated that such a ‘partnership’ would keep the the 21st reported this year. Meanwhile, an US military in the country well past the 2014 agreement to regulate and limit the use of armed deadline for the withdrawal of ‘combat troops’. All drones becomes ever more pressing. the signposts suggest that ‘transition’ is another Afghan concept that is set to be mangled and NATO tanker driver in Pakistan – worst job distorted by the Pentagon’s conflict resolution in the world? prism.
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