{"id":16541,"date":"2022-03-22T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=16541"},"modified":"2022-03-22T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:24:59","slug":"nato-and-the-coalition-of-the-willing-albeit-some-unknowingly-willing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=16541","title":{"rendered":"NATO and the Coalition of the Willing (albeit some unknowingly willing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Bush administration<\/a>\u00a0briefly used „coalition of the willing“ to refer to the countries who supported, militarily or politically, the\u00a02003 invasion of Iraq<\/a>\u00a0and subsequent military presence in\u00a0post-invasion Iraq<\/a>. The list released by the White House in March 2003 included 46 members.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In April 2003, the list was updated to include 49 countries, though it was reduced to 48 after\u00a0Costa Rica<\/a>\u00a0objected[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0to its inclusion. Of the 48 countries on the list, four contributed troops to the invasion force (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland). An additional 37 countries provided some number of troops to support military operations after the invasion was complete.<\/p>\n

The list of coalition members provided by the White House included several nations that did not intend to participate in actual military operations. Some of them, such as\u00a0Marshall Islands<\/a>, Micronesia<\/a>, Palau<\/a> and Solomon Islands<\/a>, did not have standing armies. However, through the\u00a0Compact of Free Association<\/a>, citizens of the Marshall Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia are guaranteed US national status and therefore are allowed to serve in the US military. The members of these island nations have deployed in a combined Pacific force consisting of Guamanian<\/a>,\u00a0Hawaiian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Samoan<\/a>\u00a0reserve units. They have been deployed twice to Iraq. The government of one country, the Solomon Islands, listed by the White House as a member of the coalition, was apparently unaware of any such membership and promptly denied it.<\/p>\n

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In December 2008,\u00a0University of Illinois<\/a>\u00a0Professor Scott Althaus reported that he had learned that the\u00a0White House<\/a>\u00a0was editing and back-dating revisions to the list of countries in the coalition.[6]<\/a><\/sup>[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Althaus found that some versions of the list had been entirely removed from the record, and that others contradicted one another, as opposed to the procedure of archiving original documents and supplementing them with later revisions and updates.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

By August 2009, all non-U.S.\/UK coalition members had withdrawn from Iraq.[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/span> As a result, the\u00a0Multinational Force \u2013 Iraq<\/a>\u00a0was renamed and reorganized to United States<\/span> Forces \u2013 Iraq<\/a>\u00a0as of January 1, 2010. Thus the Coalition of the Willing came to an official end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia: The\u00a0Bush administration\u00a0briefly used „coalition of the willing“ to refer to the countries who supported, militarily or politically, the\u00a02003 invasion of Iraq\u00a0and subsequent military presence in\u00a0post-invasion Iraq. The list released by the White House in March 2003 included 46 members.[2]\u00a0In … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}