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The New Battlefield: The Hidden History of U.S Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan

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  • Imran Ali
  • Xiaochuan Dong

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The United States foreign policy has been characterized as a long and zigzag history since the beginning of America in the late eighteenth century. This vital study is a part of this long history. During 1979 Soviets invaded Afghanistan and a Soviet-Afghan War was born, American’s major influence was to be towards this region and reforms in their foreign policy to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan. It took place between 1979 and 1989 about a decade. This study seeks to answer the following questions- “Which were the U.S key foreign policy in the context of Afghan-Soviet War during 1979 and 1989 under Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan Presidencies and how these Administrations provoked hard decisions against Soviet Union and established their own doctrines?†“How the U.S got the Afghan Mujahedeen’s confidence and funneled the billions of dollars and global dangerous weapons to them chest through Pakistani ISI to punish the Soviets in Afghanistan?†“How the U.S hidden actor’s played the key role in this war?†Results based on U.S recently declassified material regarding this war from 1979-89 and found that soon after the Soviets intervention of Afghanistan, U.S begun hidden supply to Afghan Mujahedeen chest through Pakistani ISI and both the U.S Presidents, Carter and Reagan, took hard decisions including established their doctrines to protect the Persian Gulf Region and its interests. In this game, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Charlie Wilson, William Casey, Howard Hart and Stansfield M Turner played the hidden role and finally expelled out the Soviets from Afghanistan.

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  • Imran Ali & Xiaochuan Dong, 2016. "The New Battlefield: The Hidden History of U.S Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan," Asian Social Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(8), pages 1-18, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:ibn:assjnl:v:12:y:2016:i:8:p:18
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