the british fought three wars there in the early 19th and 20th century. there were many many wars going back a couple thousand years in afghanistan. but at the start of the second era in 1979 to 19 the the soef yachts invaded. the cia armed and funded a group of jihadi warriors called the mu gentleman ha dean. then the slow break up of the soef union forced them to get out. from 1989 to 2000 one afghanistan was basically a wreck, a civil war anded control to the taliban and the country s strief forced this country to its knees. and then september 11th happened. for more than a decade the u.s. struggled to succeed, including in 2010 the surgery, another 33,000 soldiers and marines bringing it to almost a hundred,000 fighters in afghanistan. in 2014 president obama unveiled