During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the importanct of war in global power dynamics. But military intervention proved not to be politically sustainable for the USA and the USSR. This study investigates the parallels and differences in the two conflicts.
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Before fighting wars with the United States and the Soviet Union, Vietnam and Afghanistan were little-known entities in twentieth-century world politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern regime, domestic polity, arms requests, domestic legitimacy, superpower intervention, foreign military intervention, outside aggression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Second World War, New York, South Vietnam, Viet Minh, America's Longest War, Eastern Europe, North Vietnam, Communist Party, South Asia, Viet Cong, Brezhnev Doctrine, Mandate of Heaven, Geneva Accords, Red Flag, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Third World, Central Asia, Korean War, President Johnson, State Department, Red Army, Gulf of Tonkin, Oxford University Press New!
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Before fighting wars with the United States and the Soviet Union, Vietnam and Afghanistan were little-known entities in twentieth-century world politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern regime, domestic polity, arms requests, domestic legitimacy, superpower intervention, foreign military intervention, outside aggression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Second World War, New York, South Vietnam, Viet Minh, America's Longest War, Eastern Europe, North Vietnam, Communist Party, South Asia, Viet Cong, Brezhnev Doctrine, Mandate of Heaven, Geneva Accords, Red Flag, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Third World, Central Asia, Korean War, President Johnson, State Department, Red Army, Gulf of Tonkin, Oxford University Press New!
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- Soviet Foreign Policy by Oxford University Press on 8 pages
- Afghanistan and the Soviet Union (Duke Press Policy Studies) by Henry S. Bradsher on 7 pages
- A Dragon Defiant by Joseph Buttinger on 5 pages
- Foreign Military Intervention by Ariel Levite on 5 pages
- Vietnam and the Soviet Union: Anatomy of an Alliance by Douglas Pike on 4 pages
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- Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival by Amin Saikal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military Power and Social Revolution (Cass Series--Cold War History,) by Richard Saull on page 205, and page 208
- Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival by Amin Saikal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century (Perspectives on the Twentieth Century) by Richard Jensen on page 214
- The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality by United Nations on page 337
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