What is ISAF?

I have seen this patch everywhere, but never knew what it really meant until now. I have finally taken sometime to study what ISAF actually stands for.

International Security Assistance Force is the name. The mission of ISAF is to help and support the government of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, by "reducing the capability and will of the insurgency, support the growth in capacity and capability of the Afghan National Security Forces, and facilitate improvements in governance and socio-economic development in order to provide a secure environment for sustainable stability that is observable to the population". However, the main role of ISAF is to assist, train, prepare, and equip the Afghanistan nation army. The two, ISAF and Afghanistan perform operations and training to best prepare the Afghanistan army. The ISAF also, supports and monitors reconstruction and development through out Afghanistan, including contractors, humanitarian aide from Afghanistan and foreign nations, IGOs, and NGOs. Mostly all NATO members give troops of some sort, some many than others. The United States is leading the troop count with approximately 68,000 troops and Luxembourg is at the bottom with 10 troops. The United Kingdom comes is second and Germany third with the most troops present.

Pursuing a career in the Military, I think it would cool to be a commander of the ISAF (hopefully we are no longer in Afghanistan when I would be a high ranking officer, but the ISAF may still be around). But as I was thinking how cool it would be to meet, lead, and command troops from around the world, I feel the ISAF is such a big organization and would be filled with bureaucratic loop holes to jump through. I feel as if I would be playing the politics game. With so many countries involve and really the United States as the leader of the ISAF, I would be required to do things or not do things that should be done, or say things or not say thing I think should be said. This I believe would drive me nuts. And going into the military I will meet this game of politics head on. How do you skip the bureaucratic loop holes and can you even avoid the "playing the game"? These are all questions of mine as I plan a future in the military. Only God knows what is in store.