User:Aria Afghani

Cold war and Principle of enemy against enemy

The Second World War left millions of death, invalids and wreckage to almost all involved countries. The images of the war and crime against humanity torn our hearts even today, decennia’s after the war. The bitter experience of the war made the industrial and imperialist countries like US, USSR, Brittan, France etc to approach a new strategy for rivalry.

They wanted not to fight direct with each other but compete politically and economically. One of the tactics to weaken the enemy was to involving the rival in war with a small country. The strategy was implemented in Vietnam and Afghanistan at the cost of millions of innocent people life.

Principle of enemy against enemy is a useful and effective tool to defeat or weaken the enemy. This strategy is not a new phenomenon. It has been used for centuries by British Empire and was one of the important reasons for their success in the past and modern history. The principle of enemy against enemy has a very simple formula:

•	don’t get involve in war with your enemy at any time •	make your enemy/ies to fight with another enemy •	chose side of one part to defeat the another •	create a new enemy against the winner •	always pretend to be a friend

We are witness of the implementation of mentioned principle in the modern history. US used Afghanistan as a tool to defeat USSR and created a false enemy by relating Islamic countries to terrorism or enemy of civilization.