| 期刊全称 | Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome | | 期刊简称 | Comparing US and Sov | | 影响因子2023 | Deepak Tripathi | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Adds to the existing knowledge about great power politics and war.Develops a concept of the Vietnam Syndrome that can be applied to other wars.Puts America’s long military venture in the Greater Middl | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | 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. 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. 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. The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of occupation, represented the revenge America sought. However, President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was the beginning of a long military venture that ended in retreat in 2021. Addressing an academic as well as a general audience, Tripathi explores parallels bet | | Pindex | Book 2023 |
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