Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
The USA went into Afghanistan in 2001, NATO operations officially started in 2003, as per the articles you just linked.
NATO Allies went into Afghanistan in 2001. From August 2003, NATO led the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which aimed to create the conditions whereby the Afghan government could exercise its authority throughout the country and build the capacity of the Afghan national security forces, including in the fight against international terrorism. ISAF was completed in December 2014 when the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces assumed full responsibility for security across their country.
NATO ISAF sent troops in January 2002. ISAF took command in 2003.
"Deployed in 2001 – initially under the lead of individual NATO Allies on a six-month rotational basis – ISAF was tasked, on the request of the Afghan government and under a United Nations (UN) mandate, to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, originally in and around Kabul exclusively. NATO agreed to take command of the force in August 2003 "
The USA went into Afghanistan in 2001, NATO operations officially started in 2003, as per the articles you just linked.
NATO ISAF sent troops in January 2002. ISAF took command in 2003.
"Deployed in 2001 – initially under the lead of individual NATO Allies on a six-month rotational basis – ISAF was tasked, on the request of the Afghan government and under a United Nations (UN) mandate, to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, originally in and around Kabul exclusively. NATO agreed to take command of the force in August 2003 "
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_69366.htm#%3A~%3Atext=ISAF+was+first+deployed+in%2Coperate+in+a+secure+environment.
2001 or 2003. Your claim that NATO never mobilized in Afghanistan is false.