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“The Afghan Civil War gave the US a long-awaited upper hand in South Asia”. Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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For most of the Cold War the United States was an uneasy outsider in South Asia. The Afghan conflict, first as the anti-Soviet proxy war of the 1980s and then, after 9/11, as a war against the Taliban regime born of the 1990s civil war, gave Washington soldiers on the ground and leverage over every…

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  • Why the advantage was "long-awaited"
  • How the war produced the upper hand after 2001
  • The limits of the advantage
  • The verdict of later events
  • Conclusion
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