{"id":230872,"date":"2010-01-26T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74755"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:02:47","slug":"eikenberry%e2%80%99s-dire-cables-asked-for-a-top-nato-civilian-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230872","title":{"rendered":"Eikenberry\u2019s Dire Cables Asked for a Top NATO Civilian in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case I left the impression in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74751\/mcchrystals-nato-partner\">my previous post<\/a> that the elevation of British diplomat Mark Sedwill to a new senior NATO civilian envoy to Afghanistan was a demotion for U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, let me correct it straight away. In Eikenberry&#8217;s dour November cables warning about the treacherous road ahead in Afghanistan, he <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/eikenberry-s-memos-on-the-strategy-in-afghanistan#p=4\">explicitly called for a new NATO civilian partner for Gen. McChrystal to equalize civilian and military efforts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The proposed strategy does not remedy an inadequate civilian structure. There is no civilian organizational counterpart to ISAF and no political leadership equivalent to NATO-ISAF commander [Gen. Stanley McChrystal], a deficiency that hampers civilian effectiveness and heavily skews the NATO-ISAF dialogue with the Afghan government. UNAMA [the United Nations mission to Afghanistan] is not capable of coordinating all the civilian efforts, because its role is not to serve as the civilian policy and program counterpart to NATO-ISAF. &#8230; [O]ur coalition efforts will remain less than optimum unless a stronger civilian structure is created.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That structure will be formally unveiled on Thursday in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case I left the impression in my previous post that the elevation of British diplomat Mark Sedwill to a new senior NATO civilian envoy to Afghanistan was a demotion for U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, let me correct it straight away. In Eikenberry&#8217;s dour November cables warning about the treacherous road ahead in Afghanistan, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}