AFGANISTAN COLD WAR

Afghan War, the internal conflict that began in 1978 between anticommunist Islamic guerrillas

and the Afghan communist government due to inner politics. Soviet Called it “Legitimate

Supporting Intervention” and West called it “Invasion”. In 1979, the Soviet army invaded

Afghanistan to support its communist government after a year of coup. It fought a resistance

movement -known as(rebels)mujahideen – that was supported by the US, Pakistan, China and

Saudi.

In December 1979, 700 troops Soviet army entered Afghanistan. Hafiz Ullah Amin who was the

president of afghan lost control and requested soviet army help due to inner conflicts. PDPA

killed 10.000-27,000 innocent people. PDPA (people’s Democratic party of Afghanistan) also

killed Amin, took key positions and elected Parkham - Babar Kamal as a president and he

officially announced for military assistance. In 1980, foreign ministers of 34 countries condemn

and UNO resolution passed. Afghanistan had been in a state of almost constant war for 20 years

even before the US invaded. In 1989, Soviet troops withdraw but civil war continued, Taliban

are the students of I Islamic studies.

Osama Bin Laden led the Islamist terror group al-Qaeda, was quickly identified as the man

responsible. The radical Islamists (Taliban) who ran Afghanistan and protected Bin Laden,

refused to hand him over the government. After a month of 9/11, the US launched air strikes

against Afghanistan.

Afghanistan followed the United States Invasion on 7 October 2001, when the United States of

America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from Power. Following the September 11

attacks in 2001 on the US, which president George Bush stated was carried out by Al-Qaeda
terrorist organization led by Osama bin laden, who was living or hiding in Afghanistan. The US

with UK government launched operation ending freedom violence from 2007 to 2009, 140,000

foreign troops operated under ISAF and US command in Afghanistan.

Ideology played an extensive role in the Cold War insurgencies. Taliban Movement, in

Afghanistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of

Colombia) beyond the discursive level. The central ideology conflicts were over capitalism and

communism, but it also proved to determine the insurgent organizations internal structures and

their control, to shape their governmental policies, and to provide strategic in the battlefield.

Containment was a United States policy using techniques to prevent the spread of communism

among the afghan people. This policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to

enhance its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. The

conflict was a Cold war-era proxy war. 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of afghans

fled the country as refugees mostly to Pakistan and Iran.

Proxy wars fought between Korean , Vietnam other countries conflicts but both sides either

funded one side of the war or fought directly against a communist or capitalist force, are all

considered Cold War proxies. The Soviet Union, the United States and their allies were locked in

a long conflict known as Cold War during 1946 to 1991. Though the period was tense and

aggressive arms race and proxy wars. At the threat of mass destruction posed by the new atomic

weapons, the heart of the Cold War lies a political struggle. The cold war is just a political

struggle causes the threat of mass destruction posed by the new atomic weapons