War in Afghanistan (1978-present): Every Two Weeks {UPDATED}

Here is an updated version of my War in Afghanistan video from April 2020, and this version includes refined accuracy, more cities shown, an expanded view of Kabul, and a distinguishment between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.
Older versions:

0:00 Intro
0:22 Saur Revolution and Aftermath (1978-1979)
0:37 Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)
1:56 Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)
2:24 Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)
3:02 Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)
3:58 War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
7:05 Panjshir Resistance (2021-present)

[TheGilliams]

Mistake: I messed up the music credits at the end. Here are the songs I used:
Guardians - Evan King
Rallying The Defense - Per Kiilistofte
What Are You Prepared to Sacrifice - Crysis 3 Soundtrack

[zavi]

Speeches by non-Americans would’ve been really cool for this video I think. It would’ve been interesting to hear maybe Brezhnev and both declarations of the Islamic emirate

[libertyprime]

It's impressive to see, that republic of Afghanistan held for so long even after USSR pulled out. Especially when you compare it to Americans as Afghanistan felt in less than a week.

[jingjie]

The only video that shows 1978 to today. Fantastic and detailed

[walterwhite]

One of the interesting thing is after decades of war, Its territorial integrity is still intact.

[decus]

Imagine being an Afghani born in, say, 1973, pretty much all of living memory would be of war.

[coasterhockygamingboy]

This event should be known as the Afghan Wars, because it was a series of non stop wars taking place in Afghanistan. Kind of like the Napoleonic Wars.

[nanzymyap]

As an Afghan it hurts to know my family lived through all of his.😔

[gengarzilla]

It's almost weird to think that this country embroiled in decades of conflict was relatively peaceful in both world wars.

[kamilkashaf]

I'm from Pakistan. I have to say this is very accurately made, down to the events and geopolitical alignment of countries that neighbor Afghanistan. Good job!

[wayner]

Excellent video. Though I feel it best viewed at 75% speed as the info and changes went by so fast. I appreciate that you show the entire series of conflicts that poor country has gone through for the past 40 years.

[benjybrasington]

4:00 but if you close your eyes
7:13 does it almost feel like nothing changed at all

[newstartyt]

Biden: *speaks*
Afghanistan: time to become grey

[hi-ilug]

My mom’s family is from Afghanistan. It’s quite bizzare how decades of war have desensitized them. After immigrating to the US, my grandma saw someone get shot in the face right in front of her. She feels sorry for what happened to the poor man, but there is no trace of trauma or fear. Sometimes I wish I was strong like them, but I am grateful to have lived a life of ease where I don’t need to be as desensitized as them.

As someone who edited the Afghan wiki since 2019, I'd say this is quite accurate. Perfect accuracy is genuinely impossible since even we weren't able to put down that textbook accuracy. Some districts weren't under Taliban control in 2008, such as in Miray in Kandahar.

[averagejoe]

Let's be real, we never controlled Afghanistan in the first place. We couldn't step a toe outside our FOB's without being heavily armed or without being shot at.

[againwithadifferentname]

In this war, I lost 3 of my aunts, and my grandfather from my mother and my dads side.
My grandmother got shot in the head and survived. Although she had issues with walking after that. I believe Allah let her live because most of her children weren't even teens.
My uncle joined the sunni mujahideen, and fought under Ahmad Shah massoud, and after the war, went to live in Saudi Arabia because he did not want to kill innocent Afghan civilliains.
After the Soviet-Afghan war, when I was 3, my dad was kidnapped by the Taliban, and escaped from them after 3 years. He told me there were some others with him too, but they couldn't escape with him.
Last year, one of his other fellow kidnapped friend was set free by the Taliban.
I don't wish this to happen to anyone.

[AcidMushTV]

"I've concluded that's it's time to end America's longest war"

Taliban: me too

[thatoneguy]

2011 was probably the last time we could've declared some sort of victory with the death of Bin Laden and pulled out before the decline started

[LA-hxgj]

It's a feeling hard to describe, where so much of my life is defined by the year I spent fighting in Afghanistan, only to be summed up with a couple of color changed over a few seconds of a 7-minute video. Infinite human struggles, each worthy of being told and remembered, will be forgotten forever. Really sad.