Soviet-Afghan War
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Major Amin on Pan-Islamism and Afghanistan, etc
Posting an old 2001 letter by Major Amin, who argues the Afghan analogy does not fit Chechnya and questions Islamic solidarity over the Kurds and 1971, with a 2012 excerpt…
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Live blogging – Rethinking Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Live notes from a Cambridge lecture rethinking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The speaker argues it was a seminal Cold War moment, that Afghanistan has been made and unmade repeatedly,…
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The Last Hurdle to Afghan Peace
Major Amin interleaves bolded comments into Brigadier Simon Saraf’s piece on the Afghan peace process. He rejects the Pakistani nationalist reading, arguing that the US has no strategy, that Trump…
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Cold war alliance restored in Afghanistan
A short comment, with quoted news extracts, arguing that Afghan requests for arms from India and Russia complete rival alliances (Russia, India and Iran against Saudi Arabia, the GCC and…
