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European allies of the United States invoked Article 5 of the NATO Treaty in the wake of the attacks of 9/11. Not only did they regard the strikes as attacks upon themselves, but they supported the US invasion of Afghanistan despite the initial relegation of European NATO allies to a secondary role. The US-led attack on Al-Qaida and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan would not encounter allied chain of command disagreements as experienced during the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict. But the US insistence upon autonomy and control over its forces in leading the invasion foretold a growing US unilateralism which, within a few months, would begin to jeopardize a major cornerstone of the US war against terrorism, namely the imperative of building a global alliance against Al-Qaida and its confederates.
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Miller, M.J. (2007). Disquiet on the Western Front: Sleeper Cells, Transatlantic Rift and the War in Iraq. In: Miller, M.J., Stefanova, B. (eds) The War on Terror in Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59956-7_6
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