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E
arlier this year, David Auerswald and Stephen
Saideman published NATO in Afghanistan: Fight-
ing Together, Fighting Alone, an exploration of how
government structures and party politics in NATO
countries shape how battles are waged in the fi eld. Auerswald
is a professor of security studies at the National War College
and the author of several books, including Disarmed Democ-
racies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force. Saideman
is the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton
University's Norman Paterson School of International
Affairs and served between 2001-2002 as politico-mil-
itary planner on the Balkans Branch of the U.S. Joint
Staff 's Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate (J-
5). Below are two excerpts from Chapter 5.
nato: nato:
Fighting together,
with caveats
