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Whitehall Paper 77

The Afghan Papers

Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 200506

Edited by Michael Clarke

www.rusi.org

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 200506

Edited by Michael Clarke

First published 2011

Whitehall Papers series

Series Editor: Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Editors: Adrian Johnson and Ashlee Godwin

RUSI is a Registered Charity (No. 210639)

ISBN 978-0-415-52593-0

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Contents

Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke

Valentina Soria

Matthew Willis

Robert Fry and Desmond Bowen

Nick Beadle

Michael Clarke

About the Authors

Nick Beadle

Nick Beadle is a former Private Secretary to successive Secretaries of State for Defence and a cross-Whitehall senior adviser on policy for operations. He led the Cabinet Office Afghanistan/Pakistan Strategy and Communications teams, 200810, and served in Baghdad, 200405, as the coalitions Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. He has also worked in No 10 and the Foreign Office, and on NATO, European Union and UN policy. Most recently he was attached to the National Security Secretariat on the British governments response to the Libya uprising.

Desmond Bowen

Desmond Bowen is a retired senior civil servant, working over the last decade variously in NATO HQ, the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence. He retired as the ministrys director general for security policy in 2008. He is now a member of the UN Secretary Generals Advisory Board on disarmament matters, a visiting professor at Reading University and the Staff Counsellor for the security and intelligence services.

Professor Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke is currently the Director of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Until July 2007, he was the Deputy Vice-Principal and Director of Research Development at Kings College London, where he remains a Visiting Professor of Defence Studies. He was the founding Director of the International Policy Institute at Kings College London from 200105 and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at the university in 200405. He was, from 1990 to 2001, the founding Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings. He was appointed as Professor of Defence Studies in 1995.

He has been Senior Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee since 1997, having served previously with the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, 199597. In 2009 he was appointed to the Prime Ministers National Security Forum in pursuit of the new National Security Strategy, and in 2009 was also appointed to the Chief of the Defence Staffs Strategic Advisory Panel.

General Sir Robert Fry

Sir Robert Fry is chairman of McKinney Rogers, a global business execution consultancy. He is also an adviser to a number of other companies in the banking and security sectors. He is a visiting professor at Reading University, a visiting fellow at Oxford and occasional columnist for the business press. He is a trustee of Help for Heroes and of RUSI. Before business, his military career included posts such as the Commandant General of the Royal Marines, Director of Operations in the MoD and deputy commanding general of coalition forces in Iraq.

Valentina Soria

Valentina Soria is a research analyst at RUSI, where she works in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Programme. She analyses and assesses the terrorist threat to the UK and its potential implications for national security. Her other research work also includes military affairs and defence policy issues. She is a PhD candidate at Reading University; her research focuses on the transformation of Italian and UK defence posture after the end of the Cold War, and looks to explore the importance of differing conceptions of role in shaping national defence policies.

Matthew Willis

Matthew Willis is a Research Associate in the International Security Studies Department at RUSI. NATOs campaign in southern Afghanistan, and in particular the interplay between Alliance and national policies, has been among his longstanding research interests. He is also RUSIs lead researcher on historical, political and commercial trends in the Arctic, with a particular interest in the policies of the coastal states. Matthew completed his Bachelors degree at the University of Toronto, where his dissertation examined Canadian Arctic foreign policy in a historical perspective. He also studied at the Sorbonne and completed his Masters at the London School of Economics.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to all those military officers, politicians, defence officials and advisers who have given their time so generously to engage in detailed discussions and to speak to us privately on numerous occasions about the matters covered in this volume, and in some cases for detailed comments on draft papers. Thanks, too, to those who felt able to contribute perspective papers to this collection on what is a sensitive and difficult subject. I am also grateful to Professor Malcolm Chalmers, General Editor of the Whitehall Paper series, for his overall guidance and his detailed and very helpful comments on the material. Great thanks also to Adrian Johnson and Ashlee Godwin in the RUSI Publications department for excellent editing under pressure. I also owe a special gratitude to my research colleague Valentina Soria, who has worked with me throughout this study both as a co-writer and project director and with whom I co-authored the earlier study on this issue in the RUSI Journal . My sincere thanks to them all.

Professor Michael Clarke

Acronyms and Abbreviations

ARRC	Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
CDS	Chief of the Defence Staff
CJO	Chief of Joint Operations
COIN	Counter-insurgency
DCDS(C)	Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Commitments)
DfID	Department for International Development
DND	Department of National Defence (Canada)
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