Afghanistan in the foreign policy of US president Ronald Reagan, within the years 1981–1989 Cover Image

Afganistan w polityce zagranicznej prezydenta USA Ronalda Reagana w latach 1981–1989
Afghanistan in the foreign policy of US president Ronald Reagan, within the years 1981–1989

Author(s): Piotr Daniel Markowicz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uczelni Jana Wyżykowskiego
Keywords: Afganistan; USA; USSR; Ronald Regan

Summary/Abstract: The article presents issues related to motives, methods of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policytowards Afghanistan. The U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration granted millionsof dollars of aid, largely in the form of weapons and military training, to famous guerrillasin Afghanistan, known as the mujahadeen. Their enemy was the Soviet Army, which was aninstrument of foreign policy of the USSR.