The CIA’s Afghan Gambit: Operation Cyclone: The Hidden History of America’s Proxy War, Soviet Defeat, and the Birth of Global Jihad - Softcover

Smith, Collins JK.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798263948726

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🔥 What if America’s greatest Cold War triumph became the spark that set the world on fire?

In The CIA’s Afghan Gambit: Operation Cyclone, uncover the hidden history of the covert war that toppled the Soviet Union—only to unleash global jihad and decades of chaos.

From the bloody Communist coup in Kabul to the Christmas Eve Soviet invasion, from Washington’s billion-dollar shadow war to the rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, this gripping narrative takes you inside the crossroads where empires clashed and monsters were born.

This is not a dry history. It’s the untold story of how:

* The CIA and Pakistan’s ISI funneled weapons, money, and ideology into Afghanistan.

* The Stinger missile revolution turned ragtag fighters into a superpower’s nightmare.

* A proxy war created freedom fighters the West celebrated—until they became fanatics.

* Afghanistan became the graveyard of empires, breaking the Soviets, bleeding America, and leaving millions trapped in endless war.

* Al-Qaeda rose from the ashes, transforming local jihad into a global holy war.

📖 If you think you know Afghanistan, think again. This is the real story behind Operation Cyclone—a war fought in the shadows, where short-sighted choices planted the seeds of 9/11 and beyond.

👉 Buy now to discover the hidden war that toppled an empire—and created the terror that still haunts us today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798263948726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150