Henry Kissinger once stated‚ “The guerilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” (Ewans‚ 2005). The strength of the Mujahideen’ emanated from their Islamic ideals. “They had a fervent belief in their cause and the inevitability of its triumph” (Ewans‚ 2005). During the Soviet-Afghan conflict‚ the Mujahideen accepted death as an honorable contractual feature of their Muslim obligations which stipulated unwavering loyalty and devotion to the execution of jihad
Premium Soviet Union Soviet war in Afghanistan World War II
For a time during the 1970’s it seemed that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had finally begun to thaw. President Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev had agreed to SALT I or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; an agreement to limit the number of nuclear weapons that each nation kept in their arsenal. Along with the SALT I agreement came “the adoption of a new policy method‚ détente‚ which would dominate U.S. and Soviet policy for the next decade” [1] an agreement
Premium Soviet war in Afghanistan Cold War Taliban
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror‚ often violent‚ especially as a means of coercion. In the international community‚ however‚ terrorism has no legally binding‚ criminal law definition.[1][2] Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror)‚ are perpetrated for a religious‚ political or‚ ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians). Some definitions now include acts of unlawful violence
Premium Pakistan Al-Qaeda United States
Title:Afrighanistan? International terrorism Full Text: The real danger is that the world turns its back on another poor place threatened by jihadists AFTER 11 years spent waging war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq‚ almost $1.5 trillion in direct costs and hundreds of thousands of lives lost‚ the Western public feels it has learned a hard lesson. It is more convinced than ever that even the best-intentioned foreign intervention is bound to bog its armies down in endless warsfighting invisible
Premium Taliban Soviet war in Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force
(AGG) As they say‚ “You come back a different person after the war”‚ Najmah goes on a journey throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan to find her kidnapped brother from the Taliban‚ and changes mentally and physically along the way. (BS-1) The Kidnapping of Nur and Baba-jan and the loss of Habib and Mada-jan has crushed her.(BS-2)The absence of her family members have striven her to get
Premium Afghanistan Pakistan Al-Qaeda
America has significant purpose of stopping one of the most dangerous threat from Taliban as well as al-Qaeda terrorist forces. It is not only threat of America‚ but also of whole world. The war itself is naturally long lasting and hurting. The war in Afghanistan to reach politic goals cannot go along with just military means lonely. The situation in Afghanistan is more complicated when America could not defeat Taliban thoroughly. However‚ the decision making of American leaders in relation between
Premium George W. Bush Taliban Al-Qaeda
U.S. Intervention in the USSR Mujahideen Conflict: An Invaluable Lesson in Follow Through By Rachel Goldwasser “War diminishes everyone and all states‚ even the victors‚ and that is especially true if the war is characterized by broken promises and dashed hopes‚ perceptions of betrayal‚ and disappointment in an ally. For the people living in this theater of war‚ the litany of such disappointments is long.” This sentiment from Afghani journalist Ahmed Rashid illustrates the
Premium United States World War II Taliban
Although the story of two women under oppression in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule may seem distant and irrelevant‚ Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (418 pages) is a heart-wrenching historical novel that delves into the intertwined lives of Mariam and Laila‚ two women married to the same abusive husband‚ and the struggles they face. The novel takes place in Afghanistan‚ beginning in the 1960s with Mariam’s childhood and ending in the early 2000s with Laila and Tariq’s reunion. Poverty
Premium Taliban Afghanistan A Thousand Splendid Suns
In your opinion‚ how have the characters changed over the course of the novel? ‘Terror and Chaos are now our rulers.’ These words haunt and rule over the people of Kabul. The main characters endure through physical and emotional torment‚ living in a world where fear is lived in ordinary daily routine. The book ‘My Forbidden Face’ by Latifa illuminates the world of Afghanistan before and after the Taliban invasion. Latifa’s mother faced detrimental physical and emotional trauma throughout the novel
Premium Afghanistan Kabul Woman
The Soviet-Afghan War During the Cold War many countries‚ especially developing countries‚ were caught in between two super powers separate ideologies. The United States did everything it could to promote democracy during the Cold War and the Soviet Union attempted to promote communism. Both the US and USSR interfered in many different nations’ political affairs in an attempt to gain allies and influence in all areas of the world. In one such corner‚ the seemingly insignificant country of
Premium Soviet Union Soviet war in Afghanistan Afghanistan