If there's already a thread on this, my apologies, you can close this one.
What if Jimmy Carter's administration had decided that the Soviets were not making a run for the Indian Ocean, but were propping up an allied government on their border? Carter also decides that there are no viable, long-term pro-US actors in Afghanistan and that giving weapons to Islamic fundamentalists might have some "blowback" for the USA.
With massive Soviet assistance, could the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan have prevailed against a nation-wide insurgency? If so, then what?
What if Jimmy Carter's administration had decided that the Soviets were not making a run for the Indian Ocean, but were propping up an allied government on their border? Carter also decides that there are no viable, long-term pro-US actors in Afghanistan and that giving weapons to Islamic fundamentalists might have some "blowback" for the USA.
With massive Soviet assistance, could the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan have prevailed against a nation-wide insurgency? If so, then what?