The Taliban Takeover

The turn of events has placed India’s strategic interests in a quandary. Its position in Afghanistan seems precarious and untenable as of now. To remain in the reckoning, India must wait and watch the developments in Afghanistan.

Besides the two Great Wars, perhaps no other international conflict has ever had such catastrophic geo-strategic repercussions till the invasion The turn of events has placed India’s strategic interests in a quandary. Its position in Afghanistan seems precarious and untenable as of now. To remain in the reckoning, India must wait and watch the developments in Afghanistan. of Afghanistan by the Soviet forces took place in December 1979 The nine-year war waged by the Soviet forces and Afghan Communist Government against the Mujahideen, to say the least, was calamitous for the country and the region. It set off a chain of events which threatened regional peace; displaced millions of Afghans from their homes; killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and combatants; stymied the socio-economic progress of the victim country. It also initiated the disintegration of the erstwhile USSR. Most horrendous fallout of this strategic blunder was that the terrorism became a preferred tool of statecraft and a new military political entity – the ‘Non-state Actor’ was born to threaten the world peace.