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It was another 35 or 40 years before they invaded a third time. at the close of world war i, the british again invaded afghanistan and fought another war there. that one ended with them signing a treaty recognizing their independence. britain invaded three different times to try to keep afghanistan in their orbit. three invasions, three wars. the answer was no every time. fast-forward 102 years. it was just earlier this month, august 19, that afghans celebrated what they to this day call indepen...

Britain at the end of the third british invasion of afghanistan. and it is gravely, gravely oversimplifying to say it this way, but if you did have to boil it down, the reason great britain kept invading afghanistan over and over again is because they really did think afghanistan was too cozy with russia. they wanted to stop that alliance. they wanted afghanistan in their british orbit instead. after the peace treaty in 1919 in which afghanistan formally got its independence after fighting off t...