The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021

... 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... ... Central Asian border. Andrey Kazantsev: Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems for Russia and Central Asian States The situation deteriorated rapidly in the late 1970s... ... regained its great power status and, through the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), is now in a position to provide protection to Central Asian countries, notably...