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Comradepashtun,
What your saying is the Afghan Soviet war had nothing to do with the cold war when in fact the final cold war battle was waged in Afghanistan. You do realize that the Americans backing of rebel groups against the afghan government went as far back as 1973. If not read please.
CIA activities in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Morris, a former Foreign Service Officer and National Security Council staff member under presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, writing in the Asia Times, argues that as early as 1973-74, the CIA began offering covert backing to Islamic radical rebels in Afghanistan premised on the claim that the right-wing, authoritarian government headed by Mohammed Daoud Khan, might prove a likely instrument of Soviet military aggression in South Asia. Morris argues that this premise was without basis in fact; Daoud had always held the Russians, his main patron when it came to aid, at arm's length, and had purged local communists who supported him when he overthrew the Afghan monarchy in 1973. The Soviets had also shown no inclination to use the notoriously unruly Afghans and their army for any expansionist aim.[1] Morris claims that during this period U.S. foreign policy leaders saw the Soviets as always being "on the march." U.S. secret backing of radical Islamic rebels ceased following an abortive rebel uprising in 1975
According to the "Progressive South Asia Exchange Net," claiming to cite an article in Le Nouvel Observateur, U.S. policy, unbeknownst even to the Mujahideen, was part of a larger strategy of aiming "to induce a Soviet military intervention."[7] The article includes a brief interview with Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in which he is quoted as saying that the US provided aid to the mujahideen prior to the Soviet invasion in order to delibrately provoke one.
How can you say that American was not on the Radar of the Soviets. They would not take such a big risk of invading a country whose history shows nothing but a headache for invaders. In this documentary you will realize that the soviet soldiers were even told(according to the soviet soldiers themselves) that American troops are in afghanistan and they have to defend the soviet union against the americans. Watch part 2 and the Soviet official says that we feared that if we dont send troops in, someone else would and we didn't want someone else on our border but they realized this would be a big risk.
YouTube - SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 1/5
comrada, do you believe the Soviets were not aware that going into afghanistan meant the opposition were going to be armed and funded by the Americans. They knew exactly what they were getting into, they just thought if they could succeed in eastern europe, they can subdue a backward poor country like Afghanistan
What your saying is the Afghan Soviet war had nothing to do with the cold war when in fact the final cold war battle was waged in Afghanistan. You do realize that the Americans backing of rebel groups against the afghan government went as far back as 1973. If not read please.
CIA activities in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Morris, a former Foreign Service Officer and National Security Council staff member under presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, writing in the Asia Times, argues that as early as 1973-74, the CIA began offering covert backing to Islamic radical rebels in Afghanistan premised on the claim that the right-wing, authoritarian government headed by Mohammed Daoud Khan, might prove a likely instrument of Soviet military aggression in South Asia. Morris argues that this premise was without basis in fact; Daoud had always held the Russians, his main patron when it came to aid, at arm's length, and had purged local communists who supported him when he overthrew the Afghan monarchy in 1973. The Soviets had also shown no inclination to use the notoriously unruly Afghans and their army for any expansionist aim.[1] Morris claims that during this period U.S. foreign policy leaders saw the Soviets as always being "on the march." U.S. secret backing of radical Islamic rebels ceased following an abortive rebel uprising in 1975
According to the "Progressive South Asia Exchange Net," claiming to cite an article in Le Nouvel Observateur, U.S. policy, unbeknownst even to the Mujahideen, was part of a larger strategy of aiming "to induce a Soviet military intervention."[7] The article includes a brief interview with Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in which he is quoted as saying that the US provided aid to the mujahideen prior to the Soviet invasion in order to delibrately provoke one.
How can you say that American was not on the Radar of the Soviets. They would not take such a big risk of invading a country whose history shows nothing but a headache for invaders. In this documentary you will realize that the soviet soldiers were even told(according to the soviet soldiers themselves) that American troops are in afghanistan and they have to defend the soviet union against the americans. Watch part 2 and the Soviet official says that we feared that if we dont send troops in, someone else would and we didn't want someone else on our border but they realized this would be a big risk.
YouTube - SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 1/5
comrada, do you believe the Soviets were not aware that going into afghanistan meant the opposition were going to be armed and funded by the Americans. They knew exactly what they were getting into, they just thought if they could succeed in eastern europe, they can subdue a backward poor country like Afghanistan
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