the Great Game

The term the Great Game denotes the imperial struggles between Russia and Great Britain in central Asia during the 1800's. The nation of Afghanistan was used as a buffer state between the Russian and British colonial holdings in southern Asia. It has been suggested that some of the blame for the recent geopolitical troubles in Afghanistan can be traced back to the playing of the Great Game. The Great Game started a long history of involvement in Afghanistan by foreign powers for various reasons.

Doing a general search in Galileo for 'Great Game' and 'Afghanistan' (don't put in the quote marks when searching) then sorting the results by relevance, yields some good results. Some of the highest relevancy ranked results deal with a new playing of the game in Afghanistan, now involving India and Pakistan.

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