First Chawo-Afghan War

* Rumors of Chawosaurians in Afghanistan becoming sympathetic to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

### Objective

Quell Islamist activity among Chawosaurians in Afghanistan (false alarm)

### Result

Chawosaurian military embarrassment and eventual withdrawal

Leaders and Commanders| **Supreme Leaders*** Antonio Kingston (died in office in 2015)
* Joseph Mario Lopez (blocked from reelection)
* Samantha Wawetseka (removed)
* Abooksigun Eluwilussit

**Prime Ministers*** Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX

Combatants and Belligerents|  Empire of Chawosauria* CA Afghanistan
* Al-Qaeda

The **First** **Chawo-Afghan War**, formerly known at the time as the **Chawosaurian War in Afghanistan**, **Chawosauria's War in Afghanistan**, **Chawosauria's Afghanistan Intervention**, or the **Chawosaurian Intervention into Afghanistan**, was a disastrous Chawosaurian military intervention into the War in Afghanistan that lasted from 2014 to 2016. Chawosauria's enemies in this war were Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The conflict began when Chawosauria becomes worried with the escalation of terrorism in the middle east including the rise of ISIL. There were rumors that Chawosaurians who live in Afghanistan were converting to Jihadism, building the foundation of the conflict.

Supreme Leader Antonio Kingston ordered Chawosaurian Imperial Forces to Afghanistan against Afghan Chawosaurians who have been perceived to support ISIS activity in Afghanistan, but the war received significantly less attention for two reasons: the war's unpopularity and the Proliferation of the Chawosaurian Revolution. Supreme Leader Kingston died in office in May 2015 and was replaced by Joseph Mario Lopez, but Supreme Leader Joseph Lopez's Muslim faith threatened to cast a dark shadow on the Chawo-Afghan War, so Lopez was barred from running for an official term in the 2015 Chawosaurian direct election, Supreme Leader Samantha Wawetseka was elected but was removed immediately after taking office. Supreme Leader Abooksigun Eluwilussit ended the war by withdrawing Chawosaurian troops from Afghanistan in 2016. This is Chawosauria's only War on Terror conflict.

Chawosauria's unusual and sudden decision to jump into the War in Afghanistan badly backfired, because it turns out that over 80% of Chawosaurians who live in Afghanistan clearly don't know what Islam is, or even notice that they live in a war-plagued country, the reason is the mass inbreeding among Afghan Chawosaurians because of population insufficiency due to the Afghan wars that had been going on since 1978 long before the United States invaded the country in 2001, and the fact that Afghanistan is such a poor country because of these wars. Because of this, there was barely any fighting and when fighting does occur, it was due to Al-Qaeda and Taliban ambushes and encounters, Chawosauria's line of succession crisis between one Supreme Leader to another made it difficult for Chawosaurian troops to obey or retrieve contradictory orders. Among the Chawosaurian public, the War in Afghanistan was so bitterly unpopular, the Chawosaurian public sees the War in Afghanistan as another colonial war trying to colonize Afghanistan. Chawosauria was way too pre-occupied with other issues, the Chawosaurian Revolution, the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the Religious Freedom movement in Chawosauria.

In 2016, Supreme Leader Abooksigun Eluwilussit ordered all Chawosaurian troops to leave Afghanistan at once, thus effectively ending the Chawo-Afghan War. By December 31, 2016, Chawosauria was no longer involved in Afghanistan.

The war cost the lives of 169 Chawosaurian soldiers and left 97 missing. That is not a bad loss for a losing war ever suffered by Chawosauria.

The war is widely perceived to be a joke, so it is humorously called the **War in Afghanistinky**, the legacy of the war is that it was a pointless conflict with 169 wasted lives in arms. However, there are rumors that Chawosauria is planning to go back to Afghanistan after the United States is set to leave by September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 Attacks. With the Chawo-Uralic War on its way to be escalated, the Chawosaurian Administration in Afghanistan and the Chawosaurian Imperial Government have been having agreement issues over the war since the Chawosaurian Administration in Uzbekistan became an enemy belligerent over strong disagreement with the Ural Wall.

The United States and its allies went on to lose the War in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021, and Chawosauria at that time has already entered the Afghanistan conflict during the ending of the War in Afghanistan to maybe another civil war in Afghanistan.

## Background

Afghanistan had been at war since 1978 just 23 years before the United States entered the conflict. The prolonged conflict in Afghanistan starts with a communist coup in 1978, called the Saur Revolution, where the President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and his family, were executed, and a communist government was installed.

However, not everybody were happy with the new communist order, insurgencies made by the Mujahedeen provoked a Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan in support of an Afghan communist government against the Mujahedeen, they were an Islamic militia group. Part of the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet Union had been messing around with Afghanistan since 1978 starting with the Saur Revolution, which was a successful communist coup in Afghanistan, it included the assassination of Afghan President Mohammad Daoud Khan, the purge of President Khan's supporters, and the establishment of a communist government that will rule Afghanistan for 14-years. Islamist insurgencies in Afghanistan provoked the Soviet invasion of the country in 1979, and the Soviet-Afghan War begins. Chawosauria gained interest in the conflict but pre-occupied with an Ebola pandemic in Chawosauria, and skepticism towards military interventionism among Chawosaurians going back to Chawosauria's disastrous involvement into the Russian Civil War, Chawosauria decided against involvement. The Soviet-Afghan War was becoming a disastrous war for the Soviet Union, it was dubbed as the Soviet Union's Vietnam War, and there was a U.S.-led boycott against the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. Four years later, the Soviet Union got back at the United States by leading a boycott in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Back home in Chawosauria, the 1985 Chawosaurian legislative elections was going on, and the Chawallian Communist Party was successfully tied to the Soviet-Afghan War, so with a Communist Prime Minister of Chawosauria, a Prime Minister's party has never won a mid-decade legislative election since 1935, but the Chawallian Communist Party made history by winning the 1985 election, though failing to gain seats, the Communists didn't lose any. The Soviet Union gave up on the Soviet-Afghan War, so they begin withdrawing troops in 1988 and completed its withdrawal in 1989.

Two years later, the Soviet Union crumbled, and it was assumed by many that the Soviet-Afghan War played a pivotal role in disintegrating the Soviet Union due to its government wasting so much resources into the conflict. However, the United States was too not spared from the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War, the United States supported Mujahedeen insurgents against the Soviets as part of the post-WWII rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union by aiding the Mujahedeen with military aid and training, but when the war was over, the Mujahedeen dissolved into different Jihadist groups, two of them being the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, who will soon become America's enemies in the U.S. War in Afghanistan following the September 11 Attacks in 2001 at the hands of Al-Qaeda hijackers who hijacked four American airlines and used them as suicide bombs, two against the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one against The Pentagon, and the last originally targeting the White House or the U.S. Capitol, but instead crash-landed in the outskirts of a small town in Pennsylvania. The U.S. War in Afghanistan will last for nearly 20-years from 2001 to 2021. The War in Afghanistan was presided over by four U.S. Presidents from both political parties: two Republicans: George W. Bush (2001-2009), and Donald Trump (2017-2021), and two Democrats: Barack Obama (2009-2017), and Joe Biden (2021-incumbent). As a result of war-weariness, President Biden ordered a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, while many countries involved into the conflict had already begun missions to withdrawal, thus leaving Afghanistan to an uncertain future including maybe another blowback for the United States.

Some people, especially supporters of the war, would declare it a U.S. victory, while those opposed to the war or tired of the war call it another Vietnam War for the United States. It solely depends on the final results of the war after when withdrawals are complete.

The result of the U.S. War in Afghanistan is unlikely to be a good result for the U.S. as explained by a video by Vox explaining the so-called "ring road" which is a road that connects in a circle in central Afghanistan, it was build by the Soviets in the 1960s, destroyed by decades of war, but when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the U.S. decided to rebuild the ring road, which would have made it easier for the U.S. to keep the Taliban in check, but in 2003, the U.S. runs into a distracting War in Iraq, which would in effect slash funding from the ring road into Iraq, giving the Taliban room to maneuver against the United States. The Obama administration takes over in 2009 and withdrawals the last U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 and tries to re-shift attention back to Afghanistan, but Obama's efforts in Afghanistan only produced disappointing results for the U.S. war effort, and Obama had been withdrawing troops in the process. In 2017, the Trump administration takes power and they increased the presence of U.S. military activity in Afghanistan with more troops, but the results there were unchanged, leading to Trump deciding to negotiate a peace with the Taliban, which will then be finished by the Biden administration, in which President Biden orders a complete and total withdrawal of the United States out of Afghanistan.

During the war, Chawosauria had been outright neutral from the War on Terror since 2001, this was part of the Timothy Doctrine issued by Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt. A decade later, Timothy M. Roosevelt died and the Timothy Doctrine begin to experience some cracks, Chawosauria becomes interested in the situation in the middle east.

## The Rise of ISIL

After eight years of a disastrous War in Iraq that went nowhere for the United States, the United States left Iraq in 2011 under the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama even though the U.S. had already been withdrawing since under Bush despite a surge of U.S. troops in 2007.

In 2013, problems start to erupt, the Arab Spring begins in 2010 while the Iraq War was still waging, the Syrian Civil War breaks out in 2011, the Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran begins to escalate, with the United States leaving Iraq to an endless conflict. The problems in Iraq and Syria begins to affect each other, resulting in the rise of an even scarier Jihadist group: ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), commonly known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), they are also armed with rockets. ISIS' presence provoked an international war on ISIL headed by NATO, so this made Chawosauria nervous.

In late 2014, Chawosauria finally gained interest in the War on Terror after 13-years of neutrality as required by the Timothy Doctrine, sudden echoing rumors that Chawosaurians in Afghanistan were becoming supportive of Jihadism, which would provoke a future Chawosaurian War in Afghanistan.

## Chawosauria's Entry into the War in Afghanistan

Echoing rumors within the Chawosaurian Imperial Government that Chawosaurians who live in Afghanistan were becoming sympathetic and supportive of Jihadism, speculations of Jihadist activity among Afghan Chawosaurians begin to circulate, and Supreme Leader Antonio Kingston, who was dealing with the Chawosaurian Revolution of 2009, believed that a "Chawosaurian War in Afghanistan" might be necessary to retain order among Afghan Chawosaurians. From June 20, 2014 to October 2014, planning for a Chawosaurian invasion of Afghanistan was underway.

By November 30, 2014, Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces were already in Afghanistan, engaged with encounter warfare against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and done inquiries into alleged Jihadist activity among Afghan Chawosaurians.

## A Disastrous War in Afghanistan

After the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces invaded Afghanistan in November 2014, interrogative inquiries were conducted and turns out that Jihad ties to Chawo-Afghans never existed, but it also turns out that Chawo-Afghans were intellectually impaired as a result of inbreeding caused by population bottleneck as a result of Afghanistan being at war for so long since 1978, and a lack of education due to Afghanistan being such one of the most poorest countries in the world.

Afghan Chawosaurians do not know what Islam is, they barely know that they even live in Afghanistan or even notice that there is a war going on. Embarrassed by these inquiry and interrogation results, the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces questioned the point of Chawosauria's new War in Afghanistan, so the Chawosaurian Imperial Government decided to continue the war to just keep order within Chawosaurian territory.

Fighting was extremely rare, but Chawosaurian troops have had firefight encounters with Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces, some were won while others were lost. Throughout 2015 and 2016, Chawosaurian troops took vehicle strolls all over Afghanistan mostly without encountering a single firefight with enemy forces, causing many Chawosaurian troops to hate the war, or think this conflict was too boring to fight. Another complication was the lack of orders from leaders at the top because due to the 2011-2019 Chawosaurian Succession Crisis, the Empire of Chawosauria kept changing from one Supreme Leader to another: Supreme Leader Kingston died of a heart attack on May 18, 2015, Supreme Leader Joseph Mario Lopez was blocked from running for election in the 2015 Chawosaurian direct election, and Supreme Leader Samantha Wawetseka was removed in 2016. So receiving consistent orders was difficult because one Supreme Leader gives an order, only to be overruled by a successor, or orders by generals were either overruled or vetoed mainly due to new leadership.

Angry and frustrated Chawosaurian soldiers called on the new Supreme Leader Abooksigun Eluwilussit to withdraw them from Afghanistan, which he promptly did.

## Chawosaurian Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Following Supreme Leader Samantha Wawetseka's removal in March 2016, she was succeeded by Abooksigun Eluwilussit. When Eluwilussit took over, he, like most of the Chawosaurian public at the time, was unaware of a Chawosaurian War in Afghanistan. Countless letters from Chawosaurian troops in Afghanistan demanded an order to withdrawal from Afghanistan due to fatigue of being in Afghanistan for nearly two years now.

Supreme Leader Eluwilussit ordered a withdrawal of all Chawosaurian forces from Afghanistan. By 31 December 2016, no Chawosaurian soldier is deployed to Afghanistan. It is also the same day that Eluwilussit left office and died three days later.

## Aftermath

The blame game was on among the Chawosaurian Imperial Military Industrial Complex, meanwhile, the Chawosaurian public had other things to worry about, the new Presidency of Donald Trump, the Chawosaurian Revolution and new civil war, and the 2017 Chawosaurian elections. President Trump expanded the number of US troops in Afghanistan, which was again widely ignored by Chawosaurians, but the Chawosaurian military industry watched the situation in Afghanistan carefully.

## Legacy

The Chawo-Afghan War is one of Chawosauria's most terrible wars ever. The ghost of the Chawo-Afghan War comes back to haunt Chawosauria when President Joe Biden announced that the United States of America will be leaving Afghanistan by no later than September 11, 2021, and it becomes an even bigger issue when Chawosauria is escalating the Chawo-Uralic War after COVID-19 was becoming a sidelined issue due to vaccination progress.

## Rumors of a potential Second Chawosaurian War in Afghanistan

Circulating rumors that the Chawosaurian Imperial Government might be planning another Chawo-Afghan War by the time the United States is out, but these rumors are unconfirmed nor were they denied.

## See also

* Vietnam (Term)
* Chawosauria in the War on Terror
* Chawosauria in the Iraq War
* Chawo-Uralic War