Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06ZAGREB813
2006-07-05 13:14:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Zagreb
Cable title:  

CROATIA DOUBLES TROOP LEVELS IN AFGHANISTAN

Tags:  NATO MARR PREL HR DEFENSE REFORM 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ZAGREB 000813 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/RPM, SCA/A

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/04/2016
TAGS: NATO MARR PREL HR DEFENSE REFORM
SUBJECT: CROATIA DOUBLES TROOP LEVELS IN AFGHANISTAN

REF: ZAGREB 604

Classified By: Political Officer Tom Selinger for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L ZAGREB 000813

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/SCE, EUR/RPM, SCA/A

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/04/2016
TAGS: NATO MARR PREL HR DEFENSE REFORM
SUBJECT: CROATIA DOUBLES TROOP LEVELS IN AFGHANISTAN

REF: ZAGREB 604

Classified By: Political Officer Tom Selinger for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d)


1. (U) Seventy-five Croatian soldiers deployed to Afghanistan
on three U.S. military flights between June 23 and July 2.
The deployment expanded this NATO aspirant's troop
contribution to the International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF) from 69 to 144. It also marked the Croatian Armed
Forces' first use of an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing
Agreement (ACSA) to secure logistical support from the U.S.
military.


2. (U) The newly deployed soldiers will serve with the
German-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Mazar-E
Sharif. Nineteen will establish an Operational Mentoring and
Liaison Team (OMLT) to train members of the Afghan National
Army. The remainder will serve as a force-protection task
force. Croatia's other forces in Afghanistan serve in a
military police task force and a combined medical unit in
Kabul and support the Lithuanian-run PRT in Chaghcharan.
Croatia's total troop contribution will reach 150 in early
fall.


3. (C) COMMENT: In addition to demonstrating Zagreb's
political commitment to increased engagement in NATO military
operations, this deployment offered a valuable opportunity to
dust off the ACSA, signed in 2002 but never exercised. The
ACSA will likely be a critical tool if the GoC is ever to
realize its ambition of leading its own PRT (reftel). END
COMMENT.
DELAWIE