1980s Afghan war
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 Soviet troops return after the end of the war | |
| Date | 24 December 1979 - 15 February 1989 |
|---|---|
| Location | Afghanistan |
Contents
Operation Cyclone
- Full article: Operation Cyclone
- Full article: Operation Cyclone
Operation cyclone was an enormous CIA-led effort to fund and supply the Mujaheddin. The CIA later started Operation MIAS to get the supplied stinger missiles back,[1][2] which were thought to enter the black market and be used in other conflicts around the world.[3]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graham E. Fuller | “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvellously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia” | Graham E. Fuller | 2005 |
Known Participants
4 of the 8 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | "The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors. |
| Al-Qaeda | A sketchy term that has been repeated endlessly by the corporate media. Its close connections to Western intelligence agencies are never examined. "The Brotherhood" of the modern era. |
| CIA | The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations. |
| US | The United States is the single biggest military spender in the world, with a higher 2020 expenditure than the next ten countries combined. Its infrastructure has been described to be in disrepair since the late 1980s. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Afghanistan 1979-1992 | book extract | 2003 | William Blum |
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