Talk:Proxy war

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          • "Kashmir Conflict

Militants trained in Pakistan Administered Kashmir, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been involved in terrorism in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (See: Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir). 3,200 militants are believed to be operating in the Indian state, and so far 29,000 Indian civilians have been killed in the insurgency which has also resulted in the ethnic cleansing and displacement of over 790,000 Kashmiri Pundit Hindus. The Kargil War in 1999 was fought between India and Militants backed by Pakistan." The above comment sites the article 'Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir' as its source but does not accurately summarize the article. Does it need to be changed to be more accurate?

79.77.177.143 (talk) 10:24, 18 May 2008 (UTC)










'''''''''''''''''''''''''''I think that this article should be given more detail, using less specific examples. I will attempt to work on it as I can. --Joshua Boniface 22:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC) I've removed the POV statement "Where they infiltrate into Indian held Kashmir, to spite the locals, and fight blindly what to them is a freedom struggle." and mentioned Radical Islamism above. Is "Radical Islamist" correct, or is it "Radical Muslim" or "Radical Islam"? Laogooli 01:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] US and Afghans becoming al Qaida

the article is wrong when it says that the US funded Afghan resistence became al Qaida; if you study the war you'll know there were instead two very seperate and distinct anti-Soviet factions. In the 80s, the US funded (via the Pakistan intelligence agency) around half of the Afghan resistence fighters. The rest of the forces were Jihad fighters, funded by Saudi (Bin Laden etc), had a different objective (ie Jihad instead of defending their' homeland), didn't receive money from the US (instead it was from Saudi nationals) and wouldn't have accepted CIA money anyway as they were staunchly anti American/Zionist.'''''''''''''''''''''''''''

[edit] Soviets in proxy wars

While not openly, Soviets did participate in Korean (MiG pilots), Vietnam (SAM crews) and Middle East wars (5 “Egyptian” MiG-21 lost and 4 Russian pilots dead in a single encounter with Israeli Mirage IIIs and Phantoms over Sinai in 1970, numbers may vary depending on source), also in Africa (at least as instructors and military counsellors) and Central and South America (at least KGB’s special team “Vympel” learned a very special handgun shooting technique from Nicaraguan instructor and different Soviet special forces had survival courses in this part of the World, I don’t know what degree of involvement they had in local conflicts, if they had any). Fun side of this rather grim subject was how Soviet pilots failed to speak Korean despite strict orders it was completely impossible (to look for some common phrases written down in Russian and their Korean pronunciation in Cyrillic transcription) in the heat of battle. Also, pilots of the UN forces were denied to attack airfield, that was clearly visible, but it was on China’s side and, more importantly, that could cause great Soviet ground personnel casualties and lead to open conflict or even WWIII.

Lasis 06:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stock Proxy Wars

Certain Investors will forge proxy wars against management of public companies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.210.178 (talk) 14:27, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arab-Isreali Wars

Is there a reason that these are not included as proxy wars? In a military sense they very much were. Dhatfield (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)