Chapter 336 New Appointment

In the eyes of the world, Afghanistan is a landlocked and barren mountain country. Just like a poor family, it not only cannot attract robbers, but even thieves are too lazy to visit.

But in fact, in the modern history of Afghanistan, this country has been tortured by war, and batches of robbers rushed into the robber's home, leaving the country with almost no moment of peace.

Some people say that the reason Afghanistan was attacked was because Afghanistan is a gathering place for world terrorists.

Some people also say that the reason why Afghanistan has attracted the attention of the United States and Russia and even used force is because it wants to control the Middle East and control oil. After all, the United States and Russians are both resource-intensive countries.

Some people even said that fighting Afghanistan is actually another opium war, because since the 1970s, Afghan heroin production has always been the first in the world. Although this thing is well known to be extremely harmful to the human body, due to its high profits, it has actually been controlled by financial oligarchs of major powers, and exchanged extremely high returns of dozens or even hundreds of times at extremely low prices.

But what about it?

Open the world map and you will find that the geographical location of Afghanistan is really special.

Afghanistan is bordered by China in the east, Iran in the west, and the traditional Russian sphere of influence in the north - Central Asia, and Pakistan and the Indian Ocean to the south. This is a place of four wars and a crossroads.

The Soviet Union controlled Afghanistan and opened the door to the Black Sea, which could indirectly curb the Middle East and Europe, further devour the sphere of influence of Western countries, and gain the path to enter the Indian Ocean from land to compete for hegemony with the United States, and at the same time, it could obtain rich oil resources in the Persian Gulf.

By directly controlling or supporting the pro-Afghanistan regime, the United States can prevent China from advancing westward and prevent Russia from moving south. In addition, the Shanghai army controls the Persian Gulf with its absolute advantage. The Middle East holds its hand. Controlling Afghanistan means that the United States has stuck the gates of China and Russia. China and Russia are developing, especially relying on energy imports. If the United States does this, it is equivalent to erecting an iron gate in front of China and the Soviet Union to prevent its rise.

As for China, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government pursued the national policy of "hiding its strength and maintaining a low profile", and has never been willing to interfere in a place of right and wrong in Afghanistan.

But when it comes to the importance of China in Afghanistan, we can see the clues from the ancient Silk Road. Afghanistan is the connecting corridor between the two continents of Asia and Europe. If Afghanistan controls Afghanistan, it can control the onshore transportation of the two continents. It can be said that if China wants to truly rise, Afghanistan is definitely the touchstone of China's rise!

But since ancient times, Afghanistan has been a difficult country to conquer. Since the Mongols led by Temujin enslaved Afghanistan, no country has truly conquered this country.

After World War II, the Soviet Union has been strengthening its infiltration and control over Afghanistan. Since the 1950s, it has carefully supported pro-Soviet political forces in Afghanistan. In 1973, it even supported Dawude to launch a coup, overthrew the Chahir dynasty, and established the Republic of Afghanistan. By 1977, Dawude officially took office as the first president of the Republic of Afghanistan.

But Dawude then began to disobey and attempted to get rid of the Soviet Union's shackles, which aroused dissatisfaction from the Soviet Union. Therefore, in April 1978, the Soviet Union reused its stories and skills. He supported the Afghan People's Democratic Party headed by Nuer Mohammed Taraki to launch a military coup, overthrowing the Dawude government. The name of the Afghanistan country was changed to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Taraki served as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee and served as the Prime Minister.

It can be said that the Soviet Union invested a huge amount of money and spent more than 20 years of hard work, but the result still made them extremely dissatisfied. Amin's coming to power immediately made the Soviet Union feel lost in vain, and he always believed that he wanted to become the next Peter-the-Great character, how could Brezhnev, be willing to fail like this?

What's more, Brezhnev had already felt that the situation had changed a lot before dealing with Afghanistan, that is, as far as he knew, the United States, which had always been interested in Afghanistan, seemed to be in contact with Amin with the help of China.

It is completely conceivable that the United States, which has been trying to curb the Soviet Union, even gave up the shadow of war with China on the Korean Peninsula, and finally allowed Nixon's visit to China to normalize China to curb the Soviet Union. Then if China is willing to build a bridge between the United States and Afghanistan and stab a more important position in the Soviet Union, how could the United States not be willing?

In the past, the Soviet Union alone controlled the political situation in Afghanistan, but now the situation has completely changed. There is one more China and the United States, which makes the Soviet Union feel a great threat. Otherwise, Brezhnev would not have made such a bad move that day, and wanted to reshuffle the political forces of Afghanistan by assassinating or kidnapping Amin.

When Amin seized the political power of Afghanistan, Brezhnev immediately realized that his relationship with Amin had become a dead enemy. With the support of China and the United States, Amin would not guarantee the interests of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. If he wanted to re-control Afghanistan, Brezhnev could not think of a better way except for the large army attack.

As for Vietnam at this time, to be honest, Brezhnev was even a little lucky.

He believes that the United States is too far away from Central Asia, and even if it wants to send troops to help Ah Min, it will be a bit too late. As for China being restrained by his firm ally Vietnam at this time, it has no time to advance westward. If it does not attack Afghanistan at this time, once China stabilizes the situation in Vietnam, or if the United States establishes a military base in Afghanistan, it will probably be even more difficult for the Soviet Union to attack again.

Take it for granted, what choice would Brezhnev make.

As for Vietnam, allies were used to buy it. Brezhnev believed that the Soviet Union had no strength to fight two modern battles in Asia at the same time. The future development trend of the Sino-Vietnam War could no longer be influenced by him. He could only bear whatever he wanted. When he completely destroyed Afghanistan's small-scale force, it would not be too late to deal with the situation in Vietnam after killing Amin.

This is what Brezhnev thinks now, but he would never have thought that even without the literary style, even if Afghanistan did not have the support of China and the United States, it would have caused the Soviet Union to lose its troops and generals for ten years, but it would not have taken down Afghanistan.

In the past, Amin had just contacted the United States at that time, and China had not intervened in Afghanistan at all, and was eliminated by Brezhnev's special forces dispatched to target. The Soviet Union fought in Afghanistan for ten years and finally ended in shame and failure.

Now that Amin has the support of the United States and China, the Soviet Union will definitely face greater difficulties. With the support of the intelligence forces of the two countries, it is not easy for the Soviet Union to eliminate Amin at a fixed location. The Soviet Union still wants to conquer Afghanistan for another ten years. Wen Feng thought in his heart that even if he gave Brezhnev, a Russian, would not be able to take over for twenty years, maybe Brezhnev would die at that time.

By informing one's memory of the future and the changes in the current world pattern, the writing style could easily reach the above conclusion, asking the head to give Amin some assistance, even support some intelligence work, and send some capable personnel to lay nails in Afghanistan.

The main purpose is to maintain friendly and cooperative relations with the United States and introduce the power of the United States to Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. China only needs to pay a little price in it. On the one hand, it buys the good of the United States, and on the other hand, it can exert influence in the Amin regime. This is beneficial to China without any harm.

In fact, it is fake to say that the literary style does not want to be involved in Afghanistan. Let alone Afghanistan, which seems extremely poor, is not poor, and has trillions of dollars of excellent minerals under his ground, which is enough to make him the world's mineral center when energy is lacking in the future.

But unfortunately, Wen Feng knew that China's national strength was not enough now, and it was not the time to get involved in Central Asia. The banner of reform and opening up could not fall. We must ensure a good situation of cooperation and mutual assistance with the United States, develop national strength as soon as possible, exert influence in Afghanistan at a very small cost, and slowly penetrate the Amin regime.

Of course, more importantly, Wen Feng knew that his first major task was to control Vietnam, make good use of Vietnam, expand China's influence in Southeast Asia, and lay a solid foundation for the next step of China's rise of reform and opening up.

On March 6, Wen Feng received a new secret military appointment.

This military appointment comes from the Second Department of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China. His Wenfeng is the special envoy of the Chinese Communist Party in Southeast Asia. His main work at this stage is Vietnam and Cambodia...

In formula, the mission of the special envoy in the *** is related to information on foreign weapons technology, war scale, military doctrine, economic and policy.

A lot of this kind of information can be obtained from public channels, but sensitive technologies generally have to be obtained in secret ways. This is the main role of the so-called military envoy. In the circumstances at that time, its main function was a spy.

However, in special circumstances, the Chinese Special Envoy is also responsible for some internal training programs for friendly allies to the outside world, responsible for training the military forces and institutions of other countries. Sometimes they are also called instructors by friendly countries. The training programs include intelligence skills, language skills, and improvements in military combat skills.

But this appointment by Wenfeng was really special. At that time, the Second General Staff Department actually belonged to the Special Envoy Office. It is said that there were only more than 400 people in the world.

However, in order to appoint Wen Feng, Wen Feng did not on the list of the special envoys, but specially established a Southeast Asian Affairs Office in the Second Department of the General Staff, with Colonel Wen Feng as the director. At this time, there was no one else except him, and he was waiting for him to add internal organs...

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