Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing Us and Soviet Wars Tripathi Deepak
Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing Us and Soviet Wars Tripathi Deepak Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of…
Specifikacia Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing Us and Soviet Wars Tripathi Deepak
Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing Us and Soviet Wars Tripathi Deepak
Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. America's 1975 retreat from Vietnam was a consequential event, prompting US commentators to explain it as reluctance to get involved in foreign wars, a mindset described as the Vietnam Syndrome.As Deepak Tripathi points out, the Vietnam experience made the Americans determined to give the Soviets their own Vietnam. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation's bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws both from scholarly knowledge as well as first-hand insights on how the Americans met that fate in Vietnam, and the Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan.
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of