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“The sheer size and scale of the U.S. military deployment, the number of casualties and the backing of the enemy in Vietnam, were greater than anything we ever saw in Afghanistan,” said ...
After 1992 when the socialist government in Afghanistan collapsed, Vietnam closed its embassy in that country. The Afghanistan's embassy in Vietnam closed in June 1993. [3] The embassy in Kabul was accredited to the Vietnamese embassy in Pakistan, while the embassy in Hanoi was accredited to the Afghan embassy in China. [1] [4]
The poor are disproportionately likely to be from an ethnic minority. The percentage of households with heads coming from ethnic minorities increased from 17,8 percent in 1993 to 40,7 percent in 2008. [27] The poor have limited education: people who have not completed primary education account for the highest rate of poverty. [27]
The Afghanistan Poverty Status Update was jointly produced by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's Ministry of Economy and the World Bank.It used the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) data and according to its assessment 36% of Afghan population remained poor in 2007–08 and in 2012.
In “ Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” a six-part docuseries debuting Friday on Apple TV+, Broyles recounts how he was so scared in his first firefight that he lost his voice and had to ...
When the U.S. left Vietnam we honorably brought many refugees with us. We must do the same when we exit Afghanistan.
The decade-long war in Afghanistan has also been increasingly compared to the Vietnam War, and increasingly characterized as a quagmire. [51] [135] [136] In the spring of 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the length of official United States participation in the Vietnam War, 8 years and 5 months, as the longest-running U.S. war ever.
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