• Mohammad Ajmal Zurmati

The United States is not the only country that has fought for Afghanistan, the Mongol Empire, Alexander, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union is the countries that invaded Afghanistan before the United States. Alexander said once “Easy to march into Afghanistan but getting back is very difficult”. In terms of geopolitics, Afghanistan has been a territory of significance ever since the 19th century, there was fierce competition between the British and the Russians, and the center of their confrontation was Afghanistan, and this conflict of interests between the two empires was called the Great Game. At the end of the twentieth century, Afghanistan was in the throes of rivalry between the great powers of the time, such as the Soviet Union and the United States, which later turned into a full-blown guerrilla war and the Cold War. Finally, in this century, the United States launched this war under the guise of fighting terrorism and overthrowing the Taliban in 2001, which is still ongoing. The clutches of the last three empires to invade Afghanistan show that Afghanistan has always been in the spotlight of the great powers, the geostrategic position in different periods of history has made Afghanistan the center of confrontation between the great powers. The war started 43 years ago, the previous generation of us witnessed the beginning of the war but unfortunately, the war is still going on has ambiguities and riddles that have not yet been defined and are unclear that need to be addressed and defined.

Keywords: Proxy war, Intervention, Great Game, Geostrategic location of Afghanistan.

"What Is The Riddle of Afghanistan’s Four-Decade War?", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.e256-e263, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105573.pdf

"What Is The Riddle of Afghanistan’s Four-Decade War?", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppe256-e263, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105573.pdf