CONTENTS Reader’s Guide to Related Documents xi Introduction xv 1. Documents from the Soviet Invasion and Civil War, 1979–2001 1 Document 1: President Jimmy Carter, Speech on Afghanistan, January 4, 1980 2 Document 2: Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, Office of Political Analysis, “The Soviets and the Tribes of Southwest Asia,” September 23, 1980 5 Document 3: UN Resolution 35/37, November 20, 1980 7 Document 4: President Ronald Reagan, Remarks on Signing the Afghanistan Day Proclamation, March 10, 1982 9 Document 5: Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for Research, “The Economic Impact of Soviet Involvement in Afghanistan,” May 1983 12 Document 6: Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, “The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Five Years After,” May 1985 13 Document 7: Central Intelligence Agency, Special National Intelligence Estimate 11/37/88, “USSR: Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” March 1988 16 Document 8: The Geneva Accords of 1988 (Afghanistan), April 14, 1988 18 Document 9: U.S. Army, “Lessons from the War in Afghanistan,” May 1989 25 Document 10: Islamabad Accord, March 7, 1993 29 Document 11: U.S. Consulate (Peshawar), Cable, “New Fighting and New Forces in Kandahar,” November 3, 1994 32 v
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