CIAO DATE: 03/04

In Iraq with the Coalition of the Willing

Radek Sikorski

On The Issues

February 2004

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Introduction

Although the American media seems to focus exclusively on American--and occasionally British--troops in Iraq, the coalition does include soldiers from Central and Eastern European nations, among others. The difficulties of forming ad hoc international coalitions for military operations, however, may lead the United States to rely in the future upon associations like NATO, which are already experienced in coordinating military operations.

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