TY  - BOOK
AU  - STRACHAN Hew
TI  - Strategy or alibi: Obama, McChrystal and the operational level of war 
PY  - 2010///
KW  - AFGHANSITAN WAR
KW  - MILITARY OPERATIONS
KW  - AFGHANISTAN WAR
KW  - POLITICAL ASPECTS
N2  - The removal of General McChrystal and his replacement by General Petraeus has highlighted the lack of political objectives in America's and NATO's involvoement in Afghanistan. Obama's action tho' legitimate was also done without consultation with NATO yet it was a NATO force that the American general was leading
ER  -