Far away as morocco. There are 200 more balkan troops serving in kosovo. We had thirdly an operation in the gulf of adden to support operation ocean shield which links to not only the European Union but countries like china and indonesia and russia. In order to provide for security at sea, we had an air policing operation in the baltics as well as over iceland, and iceland in the future will see the participation of nonnato members, finland and sweden, and of course we had our operations in afghanistan and libya. Let me spend two minutes on those operations and the lessons we learned for nato. Afghanistan is a unique, truly unique operation. It involves 50 nations at the height, deployed 150,000 troops. A third of which came from european nato members. And in 2009, cartwright will remember those discussions, we found an afghanistan that was frankly a mess. It was a place where our mission was failing. And we had a strategy that was unfocused and means that were insufficient and we had
Frankly a mess. It was a place where our mission was failing. And we had a strategy that was unfocused and means that were insufficient and we had a probability of success that was waning. That was the situation as we found it in 2009. We adopted a new strategy. When i say we, not only we the United States but we the alliance and its many partners adopted a new strategy that matched and narrowed the mission. Up to this point the mission was to make afghanistan the next jeffersonian democracy, to make sure women would have the same rights as men, not only there but the same rights as women have in the nordic countries. It was a large and frankly unattainable mission. What we did is we made the focus of the mission real, which is to make sure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for terrorists. That is why we were there in the first place and ultimately had to be the reason why we were there in the last place. We also adapted our means to that mission. The means were to buy
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