Similarities Between Afghanistan And Vietnam War

Similarities Between Afghanistan And Vietnam War
The conflicts in Afghanistan and that of Vietnam are similar in the sense that, the United states was involved either financially or militarily against the
spread of communism. After Afghanistan was established as an independent Country in the 1900, around 1978, a civil war erupted between the pro–am
anti–communist forces. While, Soviet was supporting the communist party, the United States was supporting anti–communist group. This is similar i in
Vietnam war, the U.S was fighting North Vietnam who had the intention to spread communism toSouth Vietnam.
Another similarities seen in both wars, is that the U.S fear the involvement of further U.S enemies, particularly the communists nations, like Russia,
and China or Iran supporting the Talibans (particularly the terrorists group called Al–Qaeda).
Moreover , when we observed this two wars fought by the U.S, we see some main differences .Firstly, the war between the U.S and Vietnam is
considered the longest war Americans got involved from November 1955 to January 1973 as...show more content...
Lastly, differences could also be seen during the war, Al–Qaeda who was the main target of the U.S in Afghanistan uses religious differences existing
in new the Country( as a tool to fight the U.S, then by causing many to undertake suicide bombing, while In the Vietnam War, it was mainly the
political differences between the U.S and Northern Vietnam that motivated both Countries to fight.
References:
"Who Were Vietnam War Leaders?– The Vietnam War." The Vietnam War. 27 July 2013. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
"Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?" Global Research. 9 Sept. 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
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Soviet-Afghan War Essay
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The
Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the
Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their "Vietnam War", meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what
happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on theUnited States are key to understanding the
Soviet–Afghan War. The war began on December 27, 1979 when Soviet paratroopers invaded Kabul, Afghanistan. The Soviet troops made assaults on
key positions like military and...show more content...
The Mujahideen would prove to be too powerful of a foe for the Afghan army to control so the Soviets took charge. More than 100,000 Soviet troops
would control major cities and towns, making the Mujahideen move to the Afghanistan mountains and countryside. Most of the battles would occur in
the mountains with the Soviet army with helicopter support trying to lure the Mujahideen out of the mountains. The mountains and countryside would
provide the Mujahideen with the ultimate hiding spots and able to use guerilla tactics. The Soviets would bomb civilian locations near the mountains
and countryside to cutoff support to the Mujahedeen but this failed with civilians fleeing from Afghanistan to nearby countries like Pakistan and Iran.
The Soviet army was no match for the climate in Afghanistan and the religious determination of the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen was able to gain the
upperhand when shoulder–fired antiaircraft missiles were supplied to them by United States through Pakistan and other equipment by Muslim
supporting groups. The Mujahideen was not organized into one big fighting force but comprised of different sects fighting to dispel Soviet forces.
With now acquiring weapons from outside sources and being joined by Muslim volunteers from all over the world, the Mujahideen were able to defeat
the mighty Soviet Union. The outcome of the Soviet–Afghan War was the Soviet Union failing

The Three Phases Of The Afghanistan War
The Afghanistan War was the longest war in history fought by the United States. The war took place over 13 years and 59 countries participated in
the war. The US led the war in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, after the Taliban refused to give America Osama bin Laden and
expel al–Qaeda. As a result of this on the 7th October 2001 the US and the UK launched Operation Enduring Freedom. They were then joined by other
forces including the Northern Alliance, which had been fighting the taliban since 1996 when they came into power. The main goal for the Afghanistan
war was to destroy al–Qaeda and the Taliban.
There were three phases of the Afghanistan War. The first phase was the disbanding of the Taliban, however it only lasted two months. The second
phase was the US strategy of defeating the Taliban militarily and rebuilding core institutions of the Afghan state, which lasted from 2002–2008. The
third and final phase was then the stopping of the doctrine rebellion of the Taliban. It began in 2008 and was accelerated in 2009 by President...show
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They had to go as the United Nations has a mandate which "calls upon Member States to contribute personnel, equipment and other resources to the
International Security Assistance Force" as part of the Security Council Resolution Resolution 1386 (2001). Australia's operation in the Afghanistan
War was known as "Operation Slipper", with two major areas of activity – Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. the government explained Australia's
commitment to Afghanistan as necessary as it would help establish democracy in Afghanistan, to prevent a re–emergence of the country as a base for
terrorism, and to prevent the country from becoming a narco–state. Australia also had an enduring commitment to the United States under the ANZUS
Treaty which was formally invoked at the time of the September 11 attacks in New York and

Afghanistan War Goals
The U.S. War in Afghanistan is the longest war in U.S. history. After the September 11 attacks in New York, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan followed,
supported by a collation of all NATO members and other countries, the war's fundamental goals were clear, with the primary objective of dismantling
the Taliban government, bring Osama bin Laden to justice, and attempt to curb the growth of terrorism (CITE). Now, 16 years later, the war calls for
hot debates. Many argue about the status of the war, is it too long? Is it worth the cost of lives? In short, the US did achieve the fundamental goals of
the war. But if the unpredicted length of the war and the astronomical cost of the war, both in money and lives were added into the deciding factor,

The Iran/Afghanistan War
The Iran/Afghanistan War is something that most young adults have grown up with. Although, many, do not understand why the war started and the
reason it is still going on. Many of these young adults believed that after Bin Laden had been shot and killed that this war would be over. This paper
can help those young Americans' understand more about the war and the continuous deployment of our American soldiers to these countries. The
good, bad, and ugly of this war will be covered. First, we will be taking a look at the background of this war to see what it is all about and how this
war really did begin. Then, a timeline will be created to show the quickness of event happenings and to give a structure and layout of the war. Lastly,
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First of all, the biggest problem one man faced, in the Air Force, during deployment was the burn pits. This was basically when anything they did
not need of had extra of would be burned. So, every morning morning the outside of the Airmen's housing and air conditioners would be covered and
filled with the soot of all of the objects that were burned. Next, Charles, a soldier in the military, had quite a few problems. He was injured with
severe back pain, but the government thought he was just trying to get out of being deployed. They sent him overseas and his pain got worse. He was
x–rayed and they found out that he had hip issues, so he was sent back to America. The next problem he faced was using the benefits he received with
joining the military. Instead of just going and getting the help he needed he had to go through a long processes of being scheduled with different
doctor's appointments jump through more hoops, to be able to use his Veteran Assistance. Lastly, the last person that volunteered to share their
problems, who wishes to remain anonymous, had issues with how long the wait is to be able to get certain appointments. Other than that all three of
these men did not have big issues with the government and wanted to put out there that the VA they were promised was what they got, but these three
were lucky. The Government

Afghanistan War Research Paper
Soldiers are often considered robots, meaning they have no real concern about the battle they are fighting. This is not true, especially in the case of
the war on terrorism. If one were to ask a soldier what he thought of the war in Afghanistan, he would immediately tell you that it is a necessary war to
keep the United States safe from the terrorists. Unfortunately, Americans do not think the same way soldiers or the families of soldiers do. Most
Americans believe the war is a waste of time, money, and American resources. This thought process is not only wrong, but completely unfair to the
troops serving. The Afghan war cannot be won by fighting or blood loss, but the war can and will be won by American occupation in Afghanistan. The
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Bush's concept of open–ended war as the response to jihadism, affirm that the military might will remain the principal instrument for exercising
American global leadership, as has been the case for decades (Bacevich)." The strategy should always be to combat the insurgents in Afghanistan with
whatever means necessary. It has been stated many times that a stable Afghanistan would make for a stablePakistan, which would make for a more
stable Middle East. Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Stephan Biddle says that chaos in Afghanistan would lead to destruction in Pakistan
(McMahon). This would be why a troop surge was needed to Afghanistan. Many Americans, however, believe that this is a waste of resources that
Americans could use elsewhere. The people want the soldiers home, yet they fail to realize that the soldiers are protecting the country. While the
soldiers are overseas in Afghanistan, the Americans can rest assured that no terrorist will attack in the middle of the night. The war has by no means
been an easy one for the American troops. The soldiers face the constant threat of insurgents and IED bombing. The war is more deadly than ever, ten
years after its start. More troops have been committed to the war, with no real definite answer on when they would be returning home. While this is a
problem with families, Obama has made it clear that the only way to win the war would be by disrupting the al–Qaeda presence in

The Vietnam War: The Afghanistan War
Some Background to the Afghanistan War is that during 1970's Afghanistan became pro
–soviet and a communist nation. However the fundamentalist
Islamic group known as the Mujaheddin strongly opposed the government. The Soviets wanted to help their ally resist this threat but did not
particularly want to send soldiers. However in 1979 when Hafizullah Amin came to power in Afghanistan he started to look towards the West, in
particular America to help deal with this threat.
But the USSR could not allow this to happen as Afghanistan is on its South–Western border and the USSR still had and wanted its buffer zone. The
Soviet Union on December 25th sent in the Red Army to replace Amin with a friendlier leader. By December 30th Amin was dead and Babrak
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War."
The Afghanistan War was also very much like the Vietnam War in many areas for example public disapproval at home, neither countries populations
particularly wanted to go to war or have their sons, brothers or fathers sent overseas to fight.
Also when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan they expected the war to be over quickly as they had much better technology and were more
advanced. This was the same view that America had when they sent troops to Vietnam. It is also very similar to Vietnam as the intervening nations
opponent supplied the opposing side in each war. In Afghanistan the US equipped the Mujaheddin to fight the Soviets and in Vietnam the Soviets
equipped the North Vietnamese to fight in Vietnam against the Americans.
In Vietnam the Americans did not want a Communist government, they wanted one that would have good relations with the West and be
pro–American. In Afghanistan the Soviets wanted a communist government to stay in charge and not become

The Afghanistan War
During the Veterans' Day program I saw a lot of veterans from the Afghanistan war. So when given the opportunity to make this project I decided to
study the Afghanistan war. This war was started by the terrorist attacks on Sept 11. 2001. The Afghanistan war was the longest ongoing war ever that the
United States has been involved in. This war, also known as the "War against Terror," lasted 13 years. It began on the day of the terrorist attacks on
Sept 11, 2001 and officially ended on December 28, 2014.
The only official loss of life during this war that happened on US grounds where those who died in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, this number
is estimated at 3880. This number included those who died in hijacked planes, first responders,...show more content...
The original conflict in Afghanistan however is when the Taliban gained control in that country. While under the Taliban's control virtually no girls
were allowed to attend school. In Afghanistan over 4,000 of the women who live there are illiterate. It is estimated 70 to 80% of girls were forced
into marriage. It is also estimated that 1,000 Afghan civilians have been killed since 2001, as the result of "crossfire, attacks unplanned, explosive
devices, assassination, bombing, and night raids into houses of suspected insurgents." By 2012 the situation had started to improve, there are now
3 million girls now enrolled in school. Along with education, public health has also improved: in 2011 there were 80 new cases of polio reported,
in 2013 the number of new reports dropped to 14. In government, there are 69 women in the Afghan Parliament, which is proportionally more than
the number in US Congress. One possible reason for the high female ratio is a requirement in their constitution which originally set a quota of at
least 27% female representation in parliament. This quota was revised to 20% but is still included in their constitution. In 2010 over 140,000 US
troops were present in the country. This was the highest number of US troops involved in the ground war in Afghanistan at any given time. This
number does not compare to the total number of people involved in the war. The number of US ground troops has decreased each year until 2014
when there were 38,000 US service men and women involved. But sadly according to an AP tally, 2,224 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan
during the war, with more than 1000 international coalition troops

Afghanistan War Essay
In 2001 the Twin Towers were destroyed by two planes and also there were two other planes one was supposed to hit the White House and the other
the Pentagon. This started the war in Afghanistan. It's been eight years since this incident, and the United States and President Obama still want to
keep this war going. Next year they are going to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. There are three reasons why they shouldn't send them:
one for their safety; two Afghanistan should keep their business to themselves; and three it's going to affect the economy big time. First of all
President Obama is going to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan next year. My first reason on why he shouldn't is because of their safety, like for
example people...show more content...
See this isn't our problem yet because they are planning but they haven't done it yet. So the United States military should just get prepared and stop
this war. Because is this all necessary to really to keep this war going, it's been eight years really they should just don't send the troops. Ok also before
the twin towers were destroyed, Afghanistan had more problems with their neighbor they were going to get in a war and that's when the United States
got involved and tried to stop that war from happening. Like they shouldn't have gotten involved because probably when they destroyed the Twins
Towers was because they were nosy and got involved on what was not any of their business. So yea they really shouldn't gotten into that problem
because now we, the United States, are the ones who are suffering from all this. Many would argue that the story of how 9/11 came about goes back, at
least, to 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, with which it shares a border. Afghanistan had experienced several problems since 1973,
when the Afghanistan monarchy was overthrown by Daud Khan, who was sympathetic to Soviet overtures. An unsuspected attack reflected struggles
within Afghanistan among factions with different ideas about how Afghanistan should be governed and whether it should be communist, and with the
problems with the Soviet Union. The Soviets intervened following the overthrow of a pro–communist leader. In late December 1979, after several
months

Tsarism In Afghanistan
The land that comprises today's Afghanistan was the frontier zone of competing empires, namely, Moghuls and Saffavids from the sixteenth to
seventeenth centuries. Persia and the subcontinent enjoyed two centuries of stability and prosperity, but their frontier zone (Afghanistan) was a bone
of contention. With the downfall of the Moghul and Saffavid Empires, Afghanistan became a torn political entity between Sikh Empire, Persia and the
Emirate of Bukhara in the early nineteenth century. Afghanistan, then became the buffer zone between TsaristRussia and British India with the fall of
the Sikh Empire in 1845. Tsarist Russia constantly intervened in Afghanistan while British India continually meddled in Afghanistan to keep it under
its orbit.

Afghanistan Cold War Essay
Like many countries throughout the world, the America's involvement in Afghanistan began during the Cold War. Communists in 1978 seized power
under the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the PDPA, led by Nur Muhammad Taraki. The PDPA attempted to impose secular reforms and
land redistribution, resulting in serious opposition. This opposition proved particularly forceful amongst the country's religious leaders, who also
represented a new wave Islamic revivalism within the Muslim world. By 1979 the communists were loosing control and President Carter authorized
funding for covert action in the form of medical aid and propaganda for the opposition. In response the Soviets stepped up their presence and
contributions to the communists...show more content...
Many of these groups were based on complex ethnic ties and territories throughout Afghanistan, which repeatedly failed to coalesce under a single
national authority. Scholar Kamal Matinuddin explains that because of the "tribal nature of Afghan society," the country was incapable of delivering a
"charismatic leader who, as an accepted political figure and as the head of a national army, would command the respect of all anti–communist elements
in the Afghanistan." Eventually these factions reached an agreement under the Peshawar Accord, which established an interim government, the Islamic
State of Afghanistan and included Ahmad Shah Massoud. However, there was one exception:

The War in Afghanistan Essay
The War in Afghanistan
In response to the September 11 attacks, the United States should declare war on the responsible group. As a nation, we should do only the actions that
bring about the best consequences, and the best consequences would occur by bringing the responsible group to justice. In this case, killing the Taliban
and its supporters is the right action because it produces the greatest amount of good. The theory that we should only do the actions that bring about the
best consequences is a consequentialist theory. Consequentialism is correct because if the action taken creates the most possible good, then that action
must be the right action. Consequentialism leads to the right action because the right action is the...show more content...
After these targets are destroyed, we should use ground troops and aircraft to search for and destroy the enemy and its resources. These resources
include: factories that produce bombs, guns, etc.; command centers; and all wartime equipment.
In a war, innocent people will die. It cannot be helped. Although bombing runs may kill innocent civilians, they must be done. For example, a
school with 50 children in it is located next to a Taliban bomb factory. The U.S. should blow up the bomb factory even if it means that the 50
children will die. This is because the bombs that are produced in the factory can be used to kill many more than 50 people. These deaths are
justified because a greater good will come from the destruction of the factory. Until it is feasible for a war to be fought where no innocent people will
die, these civilian deaths are justified because a greater good will come from the destruction of a threat to a greater number of people.
So far, the Taliban has reported that 1,500 people have been killed on the U.S. bombing raids. (Washington Post) Even though these numbers are
suspected to be exaggerated, these deaths are justified because the Taliban has the potential to kill many more than 1,500 people. TheSeptember 11
attacks prove that. Also the Taliban is partly to blame for the high number of civilian deaths because they have

Ethical Issues In Afghanistan War
Afghanistan War
The ethical issue that I have chosen to discuss is war. This issue has been a common thing all around the world, since the first ever war in 2334 BCE
(History, 2008). War can be started for a number of reasons, such as; Economic gain, territorial gain, religion, nationalism or revenge (Owlcation, 2015).
Wars can be fought in all different ways and has the potential to shape and influence the future dramatically.War and civil wars can have severe effects
and outcomes, they can be detrimental to the people, buildings, religion and living conditions of countries and states that are part of the war, whether
by choice or not.
War in Afghanistan started in 2001 as a result of the 9/11 bombings. The US government claimed that the Taliban was hiding the Al Qaeda, Osama Bin
Laden. The...show more content...
The U.S, along with allies; United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany refused the offer and launched attacks on the Taliban. After more than
15 years of fighting in Afghanistan the Taliban currently owns 36.6% of the country (CNN, 2016). During the 15 years that the war has been fought
over, there have been a total of 111,442 deaths, not just military forces involved but also afghan civilians, humanitarians, journalists and contractors
(Yorker, 2015). Over 1.5 trillion (USD) has been spent on operations in Afghanistan by all parties (CNN, 2016). Since the start of the war many
countries have been involved, majority for a small period of time, and on the side of the U.S. The Taliban have not received support from any country
or major terrorist organisations other that

The War in Afghanistan Essay
The War in Afghanistan has been an all consuming conflict for the US government since we started to launch air strikes on October 7, 2001. This is
a conflict that's been brewing since before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This war has the continuation of past conflicts in it, conflicts
that can be connected a good deal to the interference of other large powers, such as the USSR. From keeping an eye on the oil reserves, pressuring
Iran, and keeping Pakistan stable, our interests and motives for occupying Afghanistan are undeniably laced with many ulterior motives, providing us
with the issue of unfavorable opinion and our interests being the source of terrorist attacks. Afghanistan is a country that has been plagued with...show
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He became the leader of the organization the Taliban. The Taliban was rooted in a strict version of Islamic Law that basically made the guidelines for
being what the Taliban interpreted as a "good Muslim" enforced by the law. Things that were options, such as men growing beards and attending
religious services regularly and women not working outside of the home were responsibilities the new regime endowed on the people. In the Taliban's
quest to impose Islamic law, they attracted Osama Bin Laden and Al–Qaida to the cause.
The Taliban began to take down the local warlords and feudal system and began to make a name for themselves in the region. This brought the support
of neighboring Pakistan, with the ulterior motive of attempting to establish a friendly, stable government in Kabul. The fighting caused a sudden influx
of refugees to Pakistan's border regions, which interfered with Pakistan's trade. The Taliban eventually gained control of Kandahar, where they
acquired their new weapons, and Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Despite the Taliban's successes, they had opposition from warlords in the north
such as Massoud. Massoud originally had control of Kabul but lost this when the Taliban invaded, pushing him north. Once he was forced to flee, he
began to receive outside support from countries such as Russia and Iran. They both feared the growth of the Taliban, and Russia had reason to believe
the Taliban was

The war in Afghanistan has a complex history that goes back decades before the start of the fighting. The conflict started in 1978 when the Peoples
Party came to power in Afghanistan, they ruled over the people with an iron fist. The Mujahideen stood up to the government and the Sour Revolution
began. When the Soviet Union entered into Afghanistan to support the government we became afraid that communism would take over the country, and
we sent supplies to the Mujahideen to aid them in their fight. The United States was fighting a proxy war with the Soviet Union, meaning that we were
not fighting their troops with ours, but were aiding opposite sides of an existing fight. The Soviet Union left Afghanistan in 1988 and 1989, and the
warlords that were part of the Mujahideen take over and rule parts of the country. The...show more content...
Saddam Hussein became the leader of Iraq in 1979, and his regime was very brutal and ruled with an iron fist. Add about Iraq Iran war. In 1990
Iraq invaded the small neighboring country Kuwait because Saddam said that it was part of Iraq even though it is not. That started the Persian Gulf
War. We then sent troops to Saudi Arabia to protect it from an invasion from Iraq for its oil. It only took four days to take back control of Kuwait's
capital from the Iraq troops, and that ended the war. In YEAR the United Nations sent inspectors into Iraq because there was suspicion that they were
making Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMDs, and giving them to terrorist. They did not find anything and in 1997 Iraq kicked the U.N. inspectors
out, and the United States became suspicious that they did have WMDs and did not want them to be found. In 2003 the United States launched a
preemptive attack on Iraq without any actual evidence that they had WMDs. Saddam Hussein was captured and killed in 2006. The Iraq war had many
similarities and differences to the Afghanistan

Research Paper On Afghanistan
Location (Afghanistan) I have spent over five years in Afghanistan, and for that reason, I have chosen Afghanistan as my country of study.
Afghanistan is a country that has been ravaged by invaders and war as far back as the 4th century B.C. by Alexander the Great. Why, some might
ask? It is simple, its geographical location, in which, it could serve as a major logistics hub for most of Asia.
Where is Afghanistan located? As stated above, Afghanistan is located in Southern Asia. Its coordinates in latitude and longitude are, 33 00 N by 65 00
E (1).
How far away from home is it? I have made the trip to Afghanistan three times, and it always seemed so far away; however, according to google maps,
it is 6,711 from Seattle, Washington to Kabul....show more content...
Generally, they have not fled the country regardless of the wars, and have often came together to get rid of the occupying forces.
Regions
What language(s) do people speak? According to the CIA World Factbook, Afghans speak the following: Dari, which is the official language, Pashto,
and Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen). Additionally, they speak over 30 minor languages (1).
What are the political divisions of the country (states, provinces, republics)? Afghanistan is comprised of 24 provinces, with Kabul being the capital.
They have a political system similar to that of the United States; however, they still have many laws that are based in Islamic customs.
How is the country similar to any of its neighbors? By and large, Afghanistan's neighbors share a similar climate and religious background; however,
some may say that is the extent of their similarities and relationships. As stated before, this is due to the geographical location of the country and
importance to establish key logistical routes from the Arabian Sea, India, and other countries to the Northern parts of

INTRODUCTION
The Afghanistan war began back in 2001 and is still ongoing with The United States and Allied soldiers still fighting in Afghanistan to this today. With
seventeen years passing since the United Nations first deployed troops to the rough mountainous landscape known as Afghanistan, it has been a tough
uphill battle with thousands of lives being lost. Both sides are fighting for what they believe is right in a dangerous part of the world.
CAUSES AND EFFECTS
The country of Afghanistan's history is known as unstable, turbulent, unforgiving and violent with no just end in sight. Afghanistan has been
recognised as an independent country since the early 1900's meaning that they were not under the jurisdiction of any foreign powers.
Commencing in the 1970's...show more content...
Pro–communist forces were sent military support from the Soviet Union whilst the United States provided financial and military support to those
battling the Soviets (the Mujahideen army). The number exceeding more than one million people died throughout this conflict although the Soviets
were repulsed. After fighting the Soviets multiple different extremist groups and military organisations fought for control of the rogue nation until
eventually, a fundamentalist terrorist organisation known as the Taliban capitalised to seize control of Afghanistan. The Taliban put harsh restrictions on
Afghanistan and ruled according to Islamic sharia law. The environment built by the Taliban in Afghanistan was one to breed terrorist. As a
consequence of this, war veteran Osama bin Laden rose to become one of the leaders of the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation within the country of
Afghanistan. Al Qaeda & Osama planned to strike against the United States which led to the Al Qaeda bombings of the United States embassies in
Africa and the September eleven terrorist attacks orchestrated by none other than Osama bin

At the time of my writing, the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history, a status it seems likely to retain for some
time. It has been, and remains, a very strange war, all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO
forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus, the father and
executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military success in Iraq, a version of which is now being applied in Afghanistan. The notion
that his appointment will lead to substantial changes in the Afghan mission is hence overblown, especially as up until a week ago he was the one telling
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However, much to the surprise of many, theTaliban proved highly resilient. Between 2001 and 2006 they were largely quiescent, nourishing their
movement across the border in Pakistan, recruiting, training, and absorbing an influx of insurgents who fled Iraq after the surge. Then they started
coming back, and in force. They wanted to conquer Afghanistan again, and it was clear that the nascent Afghan security forces and the European
mission in Kabul wasn't up to the task of stopping them. Nor were the small number of U.S. troops who were still in the country. So, belatedly, the
Bush administration began the task of dispatching more troops, and ISAF extended its mission to cover the whole country, subsuming the U.S. forces.
This was the start of a serious attempt to come up with a strategy for the future of Afghanistan and to combat the Taliban.
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The exact content of this strategy depended heavily on what the new president did when he assumed office in 2009. Obama eventually decided to
adopt a counterinsurgency strategy similar to the one carried out in Iraq. Under this strategy, the problem of Afghan internal security would be
Americanized for as long as it took to build up an Afghan government that could function on its own and defend itself. Meanwhile, a surge of U.S. and
other forces would attack the Taliban over a period of years, and deny them their most prized territory – particularly Kandahar,

The method that I propose to end the conflict currently occurring in Afghanistan is essentially a continuation of what has been going on in Afghanistan
since the fall of the Taliban and the creation of the current Afghani government. The current approach is an attempt by NATO forces in conjuncture
with the Afghani army to force the Taliban to come to the negotiations table to discuss peace. While this is occurring an effort is made to aid the
Afghani government with progressing and becoming a successful and industrialized nation.
I propose continuing these approaches with a few slight modifications. The use of NATO forces needs to be carefully increased. Not just the American
forces in Afghanistan but all NATO countries need to increase their...show more content...
The first is that under the Taliban rule women were not allowed to go out of the house unless accompanied by a male and could not go into public if
they did not cover themselves from head to foot with a burka. The second is that the current Afghani government repealed the laws created by the
Taliban that repressed women. Under the current administration women are encouraged to not talk to strange men at schools and in public but they
are allowed to drive, leave the house alone and not covered by a burka, and are allowed to work. Along with the differences in the laws made
regarding women the Taliban have officially released statements that declare professional women as fair targets.
Because of this difference every effort needs to be made to fully incorporate women into Afghani society as men's equals. This will accomplish two
main things. The first is that it will increase the work force for Afghanistan helping to strengthen the economy. The second is that if women become so
enmeshed and accepted into society it will help to wear away a large amount of support that is given to the Taliban because they support the repression
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