Yet, alongside Vietnam, another war in the 1970s has had a profound and lasting impact on global security: the Afghan-Soviet War, which commenced in 1979 with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen ...

Thus greatly increasing the Soviet Union’s nuclear forces, brutally put down a revolt in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and unbekownst to Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan in 1979 He also helped the Soviet ...