Soviet war in Afghanistan

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) C. Christine Fair, PhD., one of the foremost South Asian experts, has made Pakistan army the subject of her book: Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War. The overarching theme, resonating with all the eleven chapters in the book, depicts the Pakistan army as central to all the misfortunes befalling the country. Fair accentuates the overbearing presence and consequent ruinous decisiveness of the…

the attack of the World Trade Centre is totally sinful and illegal. Due to the event, Muslim scholars had come out with several article commenting on the event and the Islamic legal basis on war (jihad). War (jihad) is permitted in Islamic law, they explained, but only a legitimate head of state can conduct a war. They further argued that there are strict rules in Islamic law governing the conduct of warfare; for example, civilians must not be targeted and property must not be wantonly…

CRASH! Screams filled the air as the airplane crashed into the skyscraper. At first people thought it was an accident, but realized it wasn’t as another plane crashed into the skyscraper’s twin. Who was responsible for this act of terror? It was in fact Osama bin Laden, the leader of a terrorist group known as Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden’s beliefs led to his hatred of America, his attacks on America, and ultimately caused his death. Here is a look at Osama’s family background. Osama’s father,…

or shipped off to the dreaded Siberian gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the era when Stalin's "cult of personality" rose to overwhelming prominence in the Soviet Union, as history was rewritten to make him the hero of every circumstance,…

Chapter 22 MRQ#1 When and where did communism exercise influence during the twentieth century? Originated from Karl Marx and Marxism; Karl Marx predicted communism to take place in industrial societies, not rural/ peasant areas Represented final stage of development of equality and collective living w/out private property Vietnam was a major struggle; nationalistic, violent roots and communism from ho chi Minh spilled into Laos and Cambodia Fidel Castro led rev. nationalist movement in Latin Am.…

The greatest change I made to my story of the history of the United States was decreasing the amount of information about events before reconstruction. I made this change, because the focus of this class was on events that occurred past the Civil War. With the extra space I made multiple changes. In particular I included information about events and policies and still affect the United States today, such as programs created in the New Deal and immigration after the Hart-Cellar act. This…

The Soviet Union was one of the most powerful communist countries in the world due to its invincible army. During the Stalin’s era, Moscow was the center of an international communist movement. Most of the communist nations during the Cold War were the Soviet satellite states such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, along with China. From the Soviet’s perspective, the foreign communist parties could be used in diplomatic games with the Western powers and as necessary parts of the…

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the forty five year long Cold War between America and the Soviet Union had ended. This pivotal event was a bellwether for change throughout the globe, with communist states falling like dominoes and ushering in a new era of the exceptional, indispensable US’ unipolar hegemony characterized by stability, the proliferation of interconnected market economies, and the spread of democracy -- all leading to eternal peace among nations. At least, that is what many of…

Broadly speaking, the US – Russian disarmament talks have continued in the same cold war relationship dynamics between the United States and Soviet Union. The brief interlude of the Yeltsin years was an exception. As soon as Putin took over the helms of Russia, the old cold war dynamics of mistrust and paranoia have come to the fore again. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 underscored the need for responsible nuclear leadership and was a precursor to the détente. During the early Strategic Arms…

In the early 2000s one terrorist group rose above all, Al Qaeda attacked the United States Directly. This changed the face of war on terror forever. We learned, we studied and we mastered Al Qaeda only to put it to an end and terminate the Head of the Serpent. What is Al Qaeda’s current Status? Is Al Qaeda Still operating or in hiding? Was the impact of the death of Osama Bin Laden to much for Al Qaeda to seek Revenge, who is the new Bin Laden? Al Qaeda was a larger terror power and over the…