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AFGHANISTAN AND THE VIETNAM SYNDROME - DEEPAK T...

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 between wars
in Afghanistan and Vietnam  and shows how the United States and the Soviet Union met the same
fate.

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