afghanistan

Presume if Leon Panetta ran for the oval office and manage to persuade the media and the public interest to vote for him, and after the inauguration, how would it play out differently under a Panetta administration? Please don't ask me why your thinking he couldn't able to nor have any interest...

Presume if Colin Powell ran for the oval office and manage to persuade the media and the public interest to vote for him, and after the inauguration, how would it play out differently under a Powell administration? Colin Powell, (born April 5, 1937), is a United States statesman and a retired...

In modern day South Asia, People who Adhere to Dharmic Faith are already in Majority at 65 percentage, However they also have the Largest Islamic Population in the world at nearly 600 Million or 33 percentage of Muslims in the world Thus is it possible that in South Asia the Countries of...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Central_Asia Speaking of The Great Game, i recommend to watch this awesome documentary: https://youtu.be/6a7bP49ehKQ , https://youtu.be/3Re4x0dizlM Assuming if the Russians were aware of...

How can the Afghan Empire be able survive until modern-day? Will it be inevitable become a rump state like IRL?

Is this plausible? Thinking of doing something with this idea. To make it easier, you can make the Soviets collapse whenever you want, just make sure it is before 1991.

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by President George W. Bush, but was...

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What if the Russian won the Great Game? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Central_Asia Speaking of The Great Game, i recommend to watch this awesome documentary: https://youtu.be/6a7bP49ehKQ , https://youtu.be/3Re4x0dizlM...

There are many 9/11-related threads on this site, but I don’t think I’ve seen this scenario discussed. First, some background: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09592318.2014.945634?src=recsys&journalCode=fswi20 In the end, the Communist government lost the civil war in the 1990s in...

POD: Khomeini is more anti-Soviet than anti-American, though he is still the latter. ----- In 1978 Iran was under the control of the authoritarian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The secret police, SAVAK, captured and tortured political dissidents, all parties were banned except for the pro-Shah...

When Pakistan was in its independence struggle some people like Chaudhry Rahmat Ali suggested a confederation with Afghanistan. In the 1950s his suggestion was realized with a confederation being made between Pakistan and Afghanistan following the end of dominion status for Pakistan in 1956...

The Graveyard Next Door: The Iranian Invasion of Afghanistan Prologue Flag of the United Islamic Front, known in the west as the Northern Alliance The year 1998 was almost half over, and the decades of turmoil that plagued Afghanistan raged on. Of course, the players had changed since the...

IOTL, Afghanistan is a very conservative place, with the Taliban a major force and very regressive social roles for women. If Islam never got as far as Afghanistan, and butterflies are largely contained elsewhere, how conservative is the place likely to be?

What's the earliest Afghanistan can become communist?

The 1973 coup overthrew the monarchy, and the king's cousin, Daoud Khan assumed the presidency. This event was a sort-of starting point to the 37 years of war Afghanistan will experience. What will happen if the coup didn't happen? Another coup? A war? Stabilzation?

When the last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was undergoing eye surgery in Italy he was deposed in a bloodless coup. Zahir Shah decided not to go against this and abdicated, though there was a chance that if he had gone against the republicans a civil war might have broken out. What...

What if the failed 1973 coup of Mohammed Daoud Khan against his first cousin, Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shah, succeeded? How would Khan’s coup effect Afghanistan and its path of modernisation?

Does the Pakistan movement still become a big thing, or would there be separate Afghanistan and Pakistan independence movements (implying that the Pakistan movement still becomes a thing)?

With any PoD,somehow make Afghanistan a Democratic state. It doesn't have to be completely so however,it can be have low-level insurgency but so long as it's mostly democratic and stable then it's fine. Bonus points if you somehow successfully transition Afghanistan into a Republic during/after...