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NATO took command and co-ordination of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in August 2003. NATO and some non-member states joined (such as Australia and Japan), the initial mission was limited to Kabul, but soon expanded. In 2006, when NATO took over full command over the Afghanistan operation, the [[Taliban]] began a major campaign. Commanders complained that their forces were being re stricted by national caveats and also that they needed more troops. In the November of 2006, at another NATO summit in [[Riga]], NATO countries removed 15% of caveats placed on troops. NATO called on member governments to provide more troops to their mission in Afghanistan but countries capability's were stretched thin in [[Kosovo]] as well as a mission in [[Iraq]] of training the new government’s security force. As a result only one NATO member was able to send more troops to the Afghanistan mission.
NATO took command and co-ordination of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in August 2003. NATO and some non-member states joined (such as Australia and Japan), the initial mission was limited to Kabul, but soon expanded. In 2006, when NATO took over full command over the Afghanistan operation, the [[Taliban]] began a major campaign. Commanders complained that their forces were being re stricted by national caveats and also that they needed more troops. In the November of 2006, at another NATO summit in [[Riga]], NATO countries removed 15% of caveats placed on troops. NATO called on member governments to provide more troops to their mission in Afghanistan but countries capability's were stretched thin in [[Kosovo]] as well as a mission in [[Iraq]] of training the new government’s security force. As a result only one NATO member was able to send more troops to the Afghanistan mission.
==NATO Member==
==NATO Members==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! NATO Member
! NATO Member
! Flag
! NATO Summit
! Expansion Year
! Expansion Year
|-
|-
| [[Germany]]
| [[Germany]]
|
|
| Second Round, 1952
| First Round, 1952
|-
|-
|-
|-
|
|
| Third Round, 1982
| Third Round, 1982
|-
|-Bonn,Germany
| [[Czech Republic]]
| [[Czech Republic]]
| Washington D.C.
| [[Washington D.C.]]
| Fourth Round, 1999
| Fourth Round, 1999
|-
|-
| [[Hungary]]
| [[Hungary]]
| Washington D.C.
| [[Washington D.C.]]
|Fourth Round, 1999
|Fourth Round, 1999
|-
|-
|-
|-
| [[Poland]]
| [[Poland]]
| Washington D.C.
| [[Washington D.C.]]
| Fourth Round, 1999
| Fourth Round, 1999
|-
|-
| [[Bulgaria]]
| [[Bulgaria]]
| Washington D.C.
| [[Washington D.C.]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
|-
|-
| [[Estonia]]
| [[Estonia]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
|Fifth Round, 2004
|Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Latvia]]
| [[Latvia]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
|
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
|-
|-
| [[Lithuania]]
| [[Lithuania]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Romania]]
| [[Romania]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Slovakia]]
| [[Slovakia]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Slovenia]]
| [[Slovenia]]
|
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
|}
|}