The United States Role in Afghanistan: A Post Exit Policy Perspective in Indian Ocean (2014-2020)

Abstract

The United States has adopted multi-faceted policy in Afghanistan since 2001 to 2020 as the alone superpower in the contemporary world politics. The Washington administration has preferred its own policy of capturing power and influence in the region. The research aims to elucidate the vested interests and objectives of the United States in Afghanistan for last 20 years along with to indicate major causes of perpetual instability in Afghanistan. How the United States and other regional powers have played their respective role in the changing geo-strategic environment of Afghanistan with reference to rolling back the stability or to develop political infrastructure and institution building process. The research work consists the qualitative analysis with the support of empirical data, how the United States has applied different variant security strategies in Afghanistan to acquire certain settled interests and objectives in Afghanistan. The research widely emphasis on the United States drawdown plan 2014 and its aftermath, outcomes, implications and the probable environment of instability in Afghanistan. The United States has fought the longest war of history in Afghanistan, but yet could not find out any agreed and acceptable solution without any conclusion of its withdrawal. Despite costing a huge investment, struggle and sacrifices the question arsis that Afghanistan still remains a zone of violence, uncertainty, instability, militancy and religious extremism. The United States has adopted the dynamical policy parameters like, coercive diplomacy, regional approach, pressuring tactic, military escalation method, complete disengagement approach, political settlement approach and the status que plus approach, but it could not be successful to bring all the Afghan stakeholders and the regional actors on any undisputed solution of the conflict in Afghanistan.