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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (189087)	10/4/2001 12:59:50 PM
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This is from Digital National Security Archive 1998 -- Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy (1973-1990) 192.195.245.32 With the Soviet "threat" diminishing, Washington has turned its attention to other security-related matters. The U.S. has begun applying its "lessons learned" from the Afghan war to its emerging strategic doctrine called "Low Intensity Warfare." One recent Pentagon report stated that "[s]ince we recognize that the support of insurgencies is sometimes in the interests of the United States, lessons from the Mujahideen experience can be applied by U.S. organizations and units which support and train insurgent forces" elsewhere. Meanwhile, U.S. military and humanitarian aid for the rebels and the Afghan Interim Government continues, as does the stalemate on the battlefield. Over 3 million Afghan refugees still live in tents in Pakistan. Residents of Kabul are still subject to almost daily rebel rocketing of the cities. And Afghans in the countryside still perish from Soviet-supplied SCUD B missiles. As the Cold War dies down in Washington and Moscow, its legacies live on in Afghanistan.