[clorkergo]

Assalam O Alaikum!

I have started this thread to discuss the History of Afghanistan.

Invaders of Afghanistan include;
Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Timur, the Mughal Empire, Russian Tsars, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and US (NATO)

Alexander: The Great (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC)

"I am involved in the land of a 'Leonine' (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one Alexander into the world, but every mother in this land has brought an Alexander in the world.”
Letter of Alexander: The Great to his mother while conquering Afghanistan.

His army faced very strong resistance in the Afghan tribal areas where he is said to have commented that Afghanistan is
"easy to march into, hard to march out of."

[Uplillacype]

Thank you for sharing.

[PebydataFeents]

Afghanistan most likely can be conquered in this day and age. All you need is some tactical nukes and job done. Yes, you'll be responsible for mass slaughter and genocide, but the (sick) goal would have been met.

[clorkergo]

Afghanistan most likely can be conquered in this day and age. All you need is some tactical nukes and job done. Yes, you'll be responsible for mass slaughter and genocide, but the (sick) goal would have been met.

You could see a Superpower being failed there. They have nukes and stealth technology but still they are failed to conquer it. At the time of Soviet Union. Russian army had nukes too.

[PebydataFeents]

You could see a Superpower being failed there. They have nukes and stealth technology but still they are failed to conquer it. At the time of Soviet Union. Russian army had nukes too.

Yes, but they were not used.

[soajerwaradaY]

Yes, but they were not used.

in a terrain like afghanistan and tribal areas even nuclear weapons are of no use. that is coming from a journalist who stayed in that terrain among the mujahideen several times. its a maze, a quagmire.

[PebydataFeents]

in a terrain like afghanistan and tribal areas even nuclear weapons are of no use. that is coming from a journalist who stayed in that terrain among the mujahideen several times. its a maze, a quagmire.

Enough nuclear warheads used and the majority of the country (in fact, any country) could be reduced to rubble; see Hiroshima or Nagasaki for that one.

[soajerwaradaY]

Enough nuclear warheads used and the majority of the country (in fact, any country) could be reduced to rubble; see Hiroshima or Nagasaki for that one.

no brother. hiroshima and nagasaki's terrain were different. they were cities. in afghanistan you can bomb the cities and it will only shed non-combatant blood. the war strategy for the mujahideen was never to fight in the open. mountainous terrain is just impenetrable.

however did NATO not give this a thought? as sheikh nasir noted, WMDs sometimes kill less than combined carpet bombing. look at dresden. its like 1000 carpet bomb = 1 nuclear bomb (minus the radiation). first are legal, second are not. NATO did not even need nuclear weapons in afghanistan, they bombed all they wanted. radiation would be just an irritant and the use of the weapons would bring golbal condemnation (only) so tons of precise hellfire missiles destroyed populations.