Was Afghanistan the Soviet Vietnam? Was Vietnam the American
Afghanistan? During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and
Afghanistan validated the crucial importance of war in global power
dynamics. After approximately a decade of intense effort, military
intervention proved too costly in human and material terms to be
politically sustainable for the USA and USSR. In the end, both
superpowers were thwarted in obtaining their original war goals and
withdrew in disgrace. As a result, the parallelism between the US
experience in Vietnam and the Soviet experience in Afghanistan is
now a widely accepted truism. But is it so?
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