The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021
China now seems the most likely actor to take a position in the post-withdrawal Afghanistan, while it remains to be seen whether Beijing wishes to engage in a conflict that the USSR and NATO had difficulty in controlling before it Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ... ... create an American outpost on the USSR’s Central Asian border. Andrey Kazantsev: Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems for Russia and Central Asian States The situation deteriorated rapidly in the late 1970s, and the Kremlin organized a military intervention ...
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