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Analytical Essay
Course: Topic: Seminar On Campaigns (POLS 295)
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Analytical Essay: The Vietnam War
advocacy groups were putting pressure on congress, and the senate to intervene, would lead to the
creation of (NSDD) 166. After the 166 order was signed, President Zia was apparently still opposed
to The Stingers, but after a visit from Senator Orrin Hatch along, with a number of U.S. delegates
Zia requested Stingers for himself to, protect against Soviet Air attacks on the border. Zia also
implied that he could get some of those stingers to rebel forces, if they were supplied to his army.
Zia would have to provide the request in writing to force the CIA to give in after being advised to do
so by Hatch and Wilson. After the delegation had confirmed that Zia not only wanted Stingers for
himself, but that he also supported the idea to give them...show more content...
"Perestroika", was Gorbachev's new idea for domestic economic planning, and the restructuring of
Soviet economics. Gorbachev would later suggest to media sources that they begin reporting
casualties of the war in order to gain public support over Politburo, and the Soviet hardliners, who
opposed pulling out of Afghanistan. "Previously, the Soviet public routinely had been told that
"soldiers in Afghani–Stan were planting trees and building schools and hospitals."' (Kuperman,
1999) The fact of the whole matter was that regardless of what the CIA was supplying to the rebels
Gorbachev wanted out anyway. Though The Stingers contribution may have aided in expediting the
directive far more than any other weapon in the region, it also served another purpose, it gave
Gorbachev another reason to pull out of the war. Mujahideen causalities were 40,000 Soviet
causalities were 14,500 dead 53,753 wounded and 415,932 ill from disease. Gorbachev eventually
concluded that the continuing intervention was allowing the Americans to bleed his country. He also
accepted that Afghanistan was an Islamic country and without that element no foreign regime would
ever be credible ." (Freedman,
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