Afghanistan is known as ‘The Graveyard of Empires’ but do you know why it is called so? It is because it defeated British Empire, Russian Empire and currently the USA.
In 19th century British invade Afghanistan twice to control the land locked country but miserably failed both times in 1838 and then in 1878. The first war continued for 4 years while the second Afghan war ended within 2 years.
The second empire for which Afghanistan become a graveyard was Soviet Union (Russia)which lost 15,000 Russian troops, injured 55,000 troops and still was forced to withdrew despite the fact that more than 600,000 Russian troops were deployed in the country. The 9 year long war is considered a disaster for Soviet which disintegrated after the end of war.
USA attacked Afghanistan on October 2001 with NATO & other allies but still after 16 years guerilla war continues. It is America’s longest war which US forces despite its military strength and technological advancement failed to end. It is said USA lost up to $6 trillion in Afghan & Iraq War.