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CONSERVATIVE ACTIONS: A COMPARISON OF THE INVASIONS OF VIETNAM AND AFGHANISTAN

Author(s) -

Andrew Lawrence

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

the turkish yearbook of international relations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2667-5382

pISSN - 0544-1943

DOI - 10.1501/intrel_0000000234

Subject(s) - stalemate , superpower , parallels , political science , politics , political economy , vietnam war , fallacy , development economics , law , sociology , epistemology , economics , philosophy , operations management

Westerners-when they give attentian to the bitter struggle raging in Afghanistan-commonly characterize it as "Russia's Vietnam."ı The characterization carries with it same misleading intellectual baggage, stuff damaged in transit during America's defeat in Vietnam: the thesis that the use of military force in the Third World by a superpower inevitably runs counter to its own interests. Currently the apparent stalemate between Soviet forces and the mujahedeen offers the most convincing proof for this thesis; however, soothsayers run high risks of error by basing their predictions of Soviet failure on American defeat,2

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