Soviet war in Afghanistan

ethnic-nationalist Chechen conflict was made more complicated and deadly with the introduction of Arab mujahideen. Emboldened by the Soviet-Afghan War, mujahideen flocked to Chechnya; bringing with them Wahhabism as well as criminal and terroristic behavior like drug smuggling, kidnapping and suicide bombing. The modern conflict has spanned from 1994 to the present, covering two official wars and numerous terror attacks against military, political and civilian targets. Driven by a desire for…

there are many disinformation, misinformation and lack of information about them. Who are they and what do they want? If we can’t answer these tow fundamental questions, we will not be able to win against these evils and their argument about the holy war, justice and injustice, right and wrong. Many people around the world may not disagree that Daesh poses a threat to our shared security and stability. At least a coalition of 65 countries, under the leadership of the US, are fighting against…

from the religious seminaries. The Soviet Union was the cause of the Taliban. The S.U was attacking many counties and they started the attack Afghanistan to get help with wars and to have a place to stay. A group of men did not like what they were doing so they wanted to gather more people and attack. After they got enough people they started to attack and chase them out (Mehra, 2014). The Taliban is a group of Muslim militants that live near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mullah…

The history of warfare went through a drastic shift following the Second World War. Nation states no longer involved themselves in armed conflict with other states of equal or similar status in the global arena. An article written by Dominic Tierney, an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College, concedes that since the Second World War, “the United States has experienced little except military stalemate and loss—precisely because it’s a superpower in a more peaceful world.”…

he entered the field himself. He first entered the film industry and starred in 52 films. He rose up the political ladder and won the Presidential election in 1981 as a Republican. Although Reagan will be remembered for his achievements in the Cold War, his economic plan was notorious for its failure. Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States on January 20th, 1981, but early in his term, he was the victim of an attempted assassination by John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley was not…

What was the Cold War and how did it start? “When Ivan meets G.I. Joe” ~Joe Strummer, The Clash The Cold War described in the simplest way was the intense ideological conflict between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with each side vying for dominance and exploiting any opportunity for expansion. In reality it involved the Western Bloc, which included the United States and its NATO allies, pitted against the Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union and its allies in…

case diplomacy doesn 't work or if publicly announced military action creates tension both internationally and domestically. Most covert actions undertaken in the four decades after World War II were part of larger policies designed to contain the Soviet Union and other communist countries. With the end of the Cold War, the role of covert actions is being reassessed. Some observers have called for an end of such efforts, while others have advocated different types of covert capabilities to…

When your freedom is thievery stolen from your own home country, nothing feels like home anymore. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghani-American novelist born in Afghanistan. Living in Afghanistan he had said that he grew up in a very peaceful place which made the author get the inspiration to write most of his stories settings in Afghanistan. One of his stories that had been drawn to the reader’s attention was “The Kite Runner’’. Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian author born in Cairo. Many of her writings…

the policies they enact or decisions they make. One such person was the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev who was born on 2nd March 1931 to peasant parents in the Stavropol territory in southwestern Russia (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). In spite of his poor background, he steadily rose through the ranks of the then ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and managed to implement sweeping reforms to the Union’s political systems.…

Humans are not the only animal that wages war. Bees; ants; and one of humanity’s closest relatives, chimpanzees, all engage in coordinated attacks against a rival group, usually to gain territory or resources. The predisposition towards violent group-on-group conflict is ingrained into animal psychology. Although animal warfare lacks the deliberation and complex aims of human warfare, it suggests human warfare is a natural part of human psychology. Warfare seems to be inherently psychological…