AFGHANISTAN AS A STATEMENT OF DISCONTINUATION OF INTERESTS AND GOALS OF THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
AFGHANISTAN AS A STATEMENT OF DISCONTINUATION OF INTERESTS AND GOALS OF THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

Summary/Abstract: In August 2021, the US military engagement in Afghanistan ended, after almost 20 years of conflict with the Taliban and terrorist organizations, with the engagement of allies, primarily NATO member countries. Given the participants in the war, the consequences of the war, as well as the inability to predict further events, the world is flooded with a multitude of analyzes, reactions, predictions and other observations of that war. These reviews come from officials of many countries and international organizations, as well as from scientific institutions and analysts to social networks and other media spaces. This article is a view of American participation in the war in Afghanistan through a key document – the national security strategy, ie the national interests established in it. In that sense, 17 strategies of the USA, adopted in the period 1987-2021, were subjected to research. year, certainly heavier documents from 2001, when the direct US military engagement in Afghanistan began. The basic hypothesis of the research is: “US engagement in Afghanistan was supposed to confirm American dominance in the world after the Cold War, as one of the vital national interests established in all national security strategies, but it did not have clear goals.”

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