The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan

Assembled from 22 blocks · 1 evidence · 12 related

1. Story
2. Soviet forces entered Afghanistan in late December 1979, killing the incumbent leader and installing a replacement, in support of a communist government that was losing control of the country. The war that followed lasted more than nine years, drew very large American, Saudi and Pakistani support to the Afghan resistance channelled through Pakistani intelligence, and ended with a Soviet withdrawal completed on 15 February 1989. It is the mirror image of Vietnam in the proxy pattern, and its consequences ran well past 1991 in the weapons, networks and political structures it left behind.
3. Knowledge
4. Proxy war
5. Mikhail Gorbachev
6. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
7. Connections
8. Proxy war
9. Mikhail Gorbachev
10. The Korean War
11. The Vietnam War
12. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
13. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
14. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
15. The Reykjavik summit
16. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
17. The Berlin Wall opens
18. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
19. The Belavezha accords
20. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
21. Evidence
22. Named as the general narrative authority behind this pack's framing of the period, and cited in the Journey's own declared references. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. It is also a work with a definite interpretive position — broadly, that Soviet conduct drove the confrontation and that Western pressure and Soviet internal failure ended it — and this pack cites it as one reading rather than as a neutral summary.