2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Setting the Scene: The US War on Terrorism
Author : Carolin Hilpert
Published in: Strategic Cultural Change and the Challenge for Security Policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Two things came together after 9/11 which both play a major role in this book: Germany’s post-war history, and US and international policies in Afghanistan. In the more than forty years preceding the terrorist attacks, Germany’s security policy had witnessed an extraordinary evolution — starting as an almost demilitarized society after the Second World War, Germany eventually came to send its forces to bombard Serbia without a UN mandate.1