{"id":38384,"date":"2021-10-27T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/oct\/26\/nato-was-a-political-failure-in-afghanistan-says-defence-secretary"},"modified":"2021-10-27T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T17:52:12","slug":"nato-was-a-political-failure-in-afghanistan-says-defence-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38384","title":{"rendered":"Nato was a political failure in Afghanistan, says defence secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says west\u2019s \u2018resolve was found wanting\u2019 but Taliban did not inflict military defeat<\/p>\n<p>Nato\u2019s political campaign in Afghanistan was a failure, the defence secretary has said, as he insisted the western alliance had not suffered a military defeat at the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Commons defence committee on Tuesday afternoon, Ben Wallace said Nato forces could have stayed on in the country, but a \u201crotten deal\u201d struck by Donald Trump\u2019s US government led to the Taliban\u2019s triumphant return.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/oct\/26\/nato-was-a-political-failure-in-afghanistan-says-defence-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says west\u2019s \u2018resolve was found wanting\u2019 but Taliban did not inflict military defeatNato\u2019s political campaign in Afghanistan was a failure, the defence secretary has said, as he insisted the western alliance had not suffered a military defea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,997,470,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-defence-policy","category-nato","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38384\/revisions\/38385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}