A review essay by David Loyn 

‘We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us’. An analysis of NATO Strategic Communications: The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, 2003–2014 Brett Boudreau. Publisher: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence 

Keywords: ISAF, strategic communication, NATO, Afghanistan, war, strategic communication, strategic communications 

About the author 

David Loyn is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College, London. Formerly a BBC correspondent, he is currently in Kabul working as an adviser to the Afghan President’s office on Strategic Communication. He is the author of Butcher and Bolt – Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan. He is currently researching a book on the NATO war in Afghanistan based on in-depth interviews with ISAF commanders.