Afghanistan After The Soviet Union

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan In the year of 1979, after helping to establish and maintain a communist government in this nation, the Soviet Union engaged in a bloody war with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, or the DRA (Unknown Author. (Unknown Date). Encyclopedia: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Retrieved April 4, 2004 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Soviet-Invasion-of-Afghanistan.). This 10 year conflict caused massive amounts of destruction and

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan began on Christmas Eve 1979, dramatically intensified the cold war and, in the early 1980s, became a symbol of international tension.1 The Soviet Afghan war was contributing factor to collapse of the Soviet Union and Soviet Communist Party (CPSU). The war that followed destroyed many Afghan provinces, and 50,000 Soviet and over 1.2 million Afghan Casualties .2 The turmoil can be trace back to Afghan Communist party or the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Soviet Afghanistan War of the 20th century wreaked havoc on both countries. 14,453 Soviets forces were killed and 18,000 Afghan forces were killed. The war raged on for 10 years: 1979-1989. The assassination of President Taraki and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1979 catapulted Afghanistan into a civil war between the Soviet Union and their Communist supporters and the Mujahideen rebels. Following Taraki’s assassination, Hafizullah Amin emerged as the leader of Afghanistan. Amin began

Afghanistan, a small mountainous country in the Middle East has experienced over 80 conflicts in the past 172 years1. The world’s major powers, Britain, the Soviet Union and America have all been to war in Afghanistan and failed to successfully conquer it. The Saur Revolution and following Nuristan Uprisings caused the Soviet Union to send military aid to Afghanistan, however when the aid was not enough to keep Soviet interests in Afghanistan, it launched its invasion. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a mountainous region in Central Asia that is home to more than 30 million people, with a history that goes back thousands of years. Some of the biggest events that occurred in Afghanistan’s history are the Soviet-Afghan War that stretched over ten years, the rise of the Taliban and the establishment of the newest constitution that was put in place to help aid to the recovery of Afghanistan. The state of Afghanistan has undergone many events throughout its history with each event setting

This is exactly what happened in Iran in 1979 and in Afghanistan in 1992 both regimes were overthrown by Islamists. Accordingly, Iran and Afghanistan are two countries that share many similarities. For instance both are Islamic countries with heavy radical Islamic Influence, both had radical Islamic groups that opposed the regime, and most of all both were enormously affected by the Cold War. However both countries developed very differently after their respective revolutions (Przeworski&Teune 33)

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and Political Ties to the Third World The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had dire effects on the international relations between Russia and the majority of western countries as well as relations between developing countries in both the Middle East and Africa. More importantly, the developing world suffered an extraordinary change in opinion with regards to partnership with communist Russia. The focus of this analysis will be the change in perspective that the

The War in Afghanistan Joseph Kemna HIST 102 American History since 1877 American Military University Dr. Lilia Anand 25 January, 2015 The War in Afghanistan Most people think of the War in Afghanistan as a war that the United States have been fighting over the last decade. But the truth is that Afghanistan has been a country familiar with war for over the last 35 years. Afghanistan became an independent nation in 1921 and The United States formally recognized Afghanistan as a county in 1934

exemplified by the Soviet – Afghan war 1979-89 which saw mass destruction of both sides and left the military ruined to no avail, destruction of life and disruption through politics. Tragedy can be observed in both the war itself the outcome and the issues that stem from the conflict. In late December 1979 during the midst of the Cold War, Leonid Brezhnev former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, sent his Soviet troops to Afghanistan and intervened