India no longer needs to play the United States off against the Soviet Union.
He also understood the need to wage a "war of ideas" against the Soviet Union.
This is really what Reagan did, was fundamentally, we waged political warfare against the Soviet Union.
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Zia had been brutally effective in manipulating the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union.
They were once brothers-in-arms in the struggle against the Soviet-backed dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
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His political and ideological offensive against the Soviet Union was rooted in a renewed focus on public diplomacy.
Italian governments did not want to upset Yugoslavia, whose independence from Moscow offered a buffer against the Soviet block.
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The Japanese won the inaugural gold against the Soviet Union at home in 1964 and repeated the feat in 1976.
"He has been building basically places to hide in the mountains throughout the war against the Soviet Union, " Bergen said.
The guns that flooded into Afghanistan to arm locals against the Soviet Union helped create the chaos that spawned the Taliban.
Then there was 1980 when President Jimmy Carter declared a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Kennedy, who was challenging Vice President Richard Nixon, played to concerns that the U.S. was losing its competitive edge against the Soviet Union.
His struggle against godlessness, he admitted, had really been a campaign against the Soviet state, and he was sorry for what he had done.
And Western Europe needed a U.S. presence against the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War.
He had slipped out of Egypt and made his way to Peshawar, Pakistan, where the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was based.
In a region flooded with munitions since the days of the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, almost every home has an AK47 or something similar.
They point out that many of the suspects in Tuesday's attacks are veterans of the American-funded war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, including Mr bin Laden.
In 1981, U.S. President Reagan announced a program of economic sanctions against the Soviet Union because of its alleged role in the imposition of martial law in Poland.
Mikhail Tal against Mikhail Botvinnik in the early 1960s had the same hallmarks of the non-Russian outsider against the Soviet stalwart, but failed to develop into a sustained struggle.
The name al-Qaeda (the base) dates from the mid-1980s, when Mr bin Laden was playing a prominent role in the American-backed war against the Soviet forces who were occupying Afghanistan.
He showed savvy in turning up to the loya jirga in the get-up of a jihadi commander, an image reminiscent of the struggle against the Soviet occupation that ordinary Afghans appreciate.
Mr. Rabbani is a Muslim scholar trained in Egypt and Mr. Massoud earned his spurs as a military leader in the jihad against the Soviet Union and its Afghan prot g s.
The US wished to quash Britain and France's residual post-war capacities to act without US support as Washington solidified its position as the unquestioned leader of the Western alliance against the Soviet Union.
For several years, beginning with the jihad against the Soviet Union and then the militants seemed (unintelligible) the Pakistani authorities have sought the help of radical clerics to find militants who can pursue the government's agenda.
Pakistan and Afghanistan were shortsightedly abandoned to their fate by the West in 1989, in spite of the fact that they were the ones who won a victory for the Free World against the Soviet Union.
Early on this outcast in a family of great wealth and power turned to Islamic radicalism, and he threw himself into the 1980s Afghanistan war against the Soviet Union, training recruits as an agent of the Saudis.
He didn't actually practice medicine until after his retirement, but when he tucked away this rocket against the Soviet Union in Brazil's opening match of the 1982 World Cup, he became the first (and probably last) M.
The document also says the detainee was a commander for bin Laden during the Afghan fight against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, and at some point called for a jihad, or holy war, against the United States.
It was a flame that led the way through the dark triple canopy of Vietnam and it was a flame that continued to shine as these United States stood against the Soviet Union, what we knew was a Cold War, it kept us warm.
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