{"id":9305,"date":"2025-12-22T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/news\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:39:11","slug":"jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/news\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jens Stoltenberg Reflects on NATO&#8217;s Afghan Endeavor: A Candid Admission of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jens Stoltenberg, the former Secretary General of NATO, candidly acknowledged in a conversation with the Financial Times that the effort to establish a democratic government in Afghanistan was a failure for NATO and its allies&#8230;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Stoltenberg&#8217;s Confessions: Democracy in Afghanistan Beyond NATO&#8217;s Reach<\/h2>\n<p>Jens Stoltenberg, in a realistic assessment, analyzed the twenty-year international military presence in Afghanistan, emphasizing the shortcomings of ambitious state-building initiatives.<\/p>\n<h2>From Counterterrorism Success to State-Building Failure<\/h2>\n<p>Stoltenberg differentiated between NATO&#8217;s initial and secondary missions, noting that the early operations aimed at combating terrorism were successful. However, as time went on, the state-building project became overly ambitious, with objectives that exceeded the capacity of NATO and its international partners. The goal of creating a democratic Afghanistan with equal rights for women and men ultimately remained unfulfilled and ended in failure.<\/p>\n<h2>Strategic Necessity of Withdrawal<\/h2>\n<p>The former NATO Secretary General described the withdrawal of forces in 2021 as a strategic necessity. While he acknowledged the chaos surrounding the execution of the operation and the events at the Kabul airport, he asserted that remaining in a protracted conflict was not the right option. He characterized the evacuation of 100,000 individuals from Kabul as one of the largest and most complex operations in history.<\/p>\n<h2>The Ukraine War Connection and Lessons Learned<\/h2>\n<p>In response to criticisms suggesting that the withdrawal from Afghanistan paved the way for Russia&#8217;s attack on Ukraine, Stoltenberg stated, &#8220;Such an analysis is overly simplistic. The West&#8217;s weakness in supporting Ukraine began in 2014, and NATO&#8217;s exit from Afghanistan played no role in that context.&#8221; He noted that the experience in Afghanistan demonstrated that international state-building projects, if not grounded in local realities, internal capacities, and regional coordination, are unlikely to achieve sustainable success. Internal NATO documents also reveal that many objectives were set without taking into account the existing societal realities in Afghanistan. For instance, the <a href='https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/news\/un-security-council-calls-for-urgent-changes-in-taliban-policies-amid-afghanistans-humanitarian-crisis\/'>UN Security Council has called for urgent changes in Taliban policies amid Afghanistan&#8217;s humanitarian crisis<\/a>, highlighting the ongoing challenges faced in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a revealing interview with the Financial Times, former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted that the alliance&#8217;s effort to foster democracy in Afghanistan was ultimately a failure. While he recognized the initial success in counterterrorism, Stoltenberg emphasized that the ambitious goals of state-building exceeded the capacity of NATO and its partners, leading to unfulfilled promises of equality and democracy. He described the chaotic withdrawal in 2021 as a strategic necessity and dismissed claims linking it to Russia&#8217;s aggression towards Ukraine, stating that true lessons lie in acknowledging local realities and internal capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":{"fa-AF":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/news\/%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b2%db%8c-%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%ba%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b4%da%a9%d8%b3%d8%aa-%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%88.html\/","en":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/news\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/","ps":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/ps\/news\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/","ar":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/ar\/news\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/","ur":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/ur\/afghanistan\/jens-stoltenberg-reflects-on-natos-afghan-endeavor-a-candid-admission-of-failure\/"},"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"\u0686\u0631\u0627 \u067e\u0631\u0648\u0698\u0647 \u062f\u0648\u0644\u062a\u200c\u0633\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c\u06cc \u0647\u0627 \u062f\u0631 \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0634\u06a9\u0633\u062a \u062e\u0648\u0631\u062f\u061f \u0633\u0631\u0645\u0646\u0634\u06cc \u0633\u0627\u0628\u0642 \u0646\u0627\u062a\u0648 \u067e\u0627\u0633\u062e \u0645\u06cc\u200c\u062f\u0647\u062f","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[11,8,1,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","category-economic","category-news","category-security","category-social"],"acf":{"myctype":"","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":"\u0686\u0631\u0627 \u067e\u0631\u0648\u0698\u0647 \u062f\u0648\u0644\u062a\u200c\u0633\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c\u06cc \u0647\u0627 \u062f\u0631 \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0634\u06a9\u0633\u062a \u062e\u0648\u0631\u062f\u061f \u0633\u0631\u0645\u0646\u0634\u06cc \u0633\u0627\u0628\u0642 \u0646\u0627\u062a\u0648 \u067e\u0627\u0633\u062e \u0645\u06cc\u200c\u062f\u0647\u062f"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jens Stoltenberg Reflects on NATO&#039;s Afghan Endeavor: A Candid Admission of Failure<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a revealing interview with the Financial Times, former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted that the alliance&#039;s effort to foster democracy in Afghanistan was ultimately a failure. 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