This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary

Re:This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary by cafard on Monday May 27, 2013 @09:01AM (#5774491)

Graveyard of Empires? The disasters of WWs I and II surely had more to do with the decline of the British Empire than anything that happened in Afghanistan.

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Re:This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary by kyboren on Monday May 27, 2013 @10:01AM (#5774661)

Have you heard of William MacNaghten? Alexander Burnes? Do you remember the massacre of the British garrison from Kabul, or the awful retribution that followed?

Yes, WWII was the direct precipitating event for the breakup of the British Empire, but the seeds of its destruction were sown long ago in that great Central Asian imperial struggle with Russia.

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Re:This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary by LekkoscPiwa on Monday May 27, 2013 @09:07AM (#5774507)

I haven't mentioned anything about UK. I was saying USSR and the USA.

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