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When we examine longer-term causes, we can identify post-9/11 mission creep that resulted in unattainable strategic goals, the failure of the Afghanistan government over twenty-years and the inability of regional actors to effectively and positively support the stabilization of Afghanistan.
With Michele Placido, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovskiy. The events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
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- War
- Vladimir Bortko
- 1992-04
- A Two-Sided War
- Many Secondary Parties
- The United States and Its Allies
- Regional Tensions
- Business Interests
- Conclusion
The war in Afghanistan involves many domestic and international parties, both state- and non-state. Not all of the details of these parties are equally relevant, however. The June 2018 ceasefire supported the idea of a simple, two-sided model of conflict: the Taliban fighting the US-backed government. Public declarations of a pause in hostilities f...
The role of secondary parties cannot be ignored. None of them individually have sufficient influence to control the war or dictate the terms of an eventual peace settlement, but their cumulative effect is substantial. Regional sources of support for the Taliban and other non-state actors have become clear in recent years with the growing scale of t...
The actors on the left side of Figure 1, the US and its allies, have had the most important influence on the conflict since 2001. Western powers shaped the war from the original decision at the Bonn conference to include representatives from many armed factions, but exclude the TalibanFootnote 9 . The government that emerged from the Bonn process w...
Another way of picturing the regional role would be to re-examine the actors listed in Figure 1 through a lens of conflict rather than support. Figure 2 seeks to portray the major lines of tension between the primary and secondary parties to the conflict. This diagram omits some patterns of conflict that are short-lived or remain latent: for exampl...
The actors depicted in Figures 1 and 2 can be sub-divided into factions, with the most notable cross-cutting issue being the war economy. Senior figures on all sides have profited handsomely from the war: among government officials, political opposition groups, the Taliban, regional governments and regional security forces. The war economy provides...
The overriding suspicion in the region has been that the US wants permanent military bases in South Asia. A lingering US troop presence of the kind in South Korea is unacceptable to Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China. India on the other hand seeks a long-term US commitment. That makes the news of a potential US drawdown reason for cautious optimism a...
Aug 12, 2022 · One year after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, fighting has decreased considerably. Yet serious security problems remain, not least the foreign militants still in the country. External actors should press the new authorities to fulfil their commitments and avoid any steps that could reignite large-scale violence.
Aug 2, 2012 · Inexplicably, this situation has not fundamentally changed since.’ In this new AAN paper, Wörmer addresses this gap by providing a detailed and extensive analysis of Kunduz’ main actors and their ever-shifting alliances.
Aug 17, 2021 · The fact is, President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were both eager to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end what Biden referred to in his Aug. 16 speech as “America’s...
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021. Launched as a direct response to the September 11 attacks , the war began when an international military coalition led by the United States invaded Afghanistan , declaring Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the earlier-declared war on terror , toppling the ...
