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Canadian Forces participate in NATO’s Training Mission in Afghanistan to assist Afghan National Security Forces this photo from December, 2012.
Canadian Forces participate in NATO’s Training Mission in Afghanistan to assist Afghan National Security Forces this photo from December, 2012.
(MCpl Marc-Andre Gaudreault/Canadian Forces)

STEPHEN SAIDEMAN

After Afghanistan, how will we fight the next multination war?

STEPHEN SAIDEMAN

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Winston Churchill once said that “There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies – and that is fighting without them.” His situation, Britain alone facing the Axis powers after the summer of 1940, was an extreme one, but the quote illustrates the paradoxes that come with waging war while in an alliance. As 2014 seems to be the year that we look back and ponder what the Afghanistan war means for the future, the question becomes: what of NATO?