You speak some amount of shite. Afghanistan may not have been successfully held but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t major upheaval and displacement there.

Following the defeat of Italian forces in East Africa during World War II, Eritrea came under British administration as a United Nations trust territory from 1942 to 1952.[3]

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The Third Anglo-Afghan War (Pashto: دریم انګلو افغان جنګ), also known as the Third Afghan War, the British-Afghan war of 1919[37] and in Afghanistan as the War of Independence,[37] began on 6 May 1919 when the Emirate of Afghanistan invaded British India and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919.[38][39][40][41][42] The war resulted in the Afghans winning back control of foreign affairs from Britain, and the British recognizing Afghanistan as an independent nation.[43]

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The United Kingdom did not contribute nor actively oppose the communist-led Saur Revolution. It opposed the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and provided both indirect and direct support for the Afghan mujahideen fighters in their struggle against the Soviet Union which included arming, funding, training and supplying various factions covertly, most notably support for Ahmad Shah Massoud in the Panjshir Valley.

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Operation Herrick was the operational name for the British Armed Forces’ operations during the War in Afghanistan, from 2002 to the end of combat operations in 2014.

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