Britain Loses The Second Anglo-Afghan War

[Blochead]

Historically, England was able to defeat Afghanistan and ensure it would serve as an effective buffer state against the Russians, helping to check their expansion.

So, suppose things go rather worse for the English and they are unable to gain any concessions from the Afghan government. However, without any arrangement to prop up the Amir, it is unlikely Afghanistan could have centralized to the extent it did, preventing it from organizing into the effective buffer state it would later become.

So, what would an unconquered but fractured Afghanistan do to the Great Game as the 1880s went on?

 

[Communist Wizard]

Historically, England was able to defeat Afghanistan and ensure it would serve as an effective buffer state against the Russians, helping to check their expansion.

So, suppose things go rather worse for the English and they are unable to gain any concessions from the Afghan government. However, without any arrangement to prop up the Amir, it is unlikely Afghanistan could have centralized to the extent it did, preventing it from organizing into the effective buffer state it would later become.

So, what would an unconquered but fractured Afghanistan do to the Great Game as the 1880s went on?

Obviously, the Russians would exploit this. Stronger Rus. Imperial influence in Afghanistan, mre tension between Russia and Britain?

 

[tallwingedgoat]

If the British can't control Afghanistan, what makes you think the Russians could?

The Great Game is more a figment of British imagination than reality. The Russians were not planning a push into India. Nor were they capable of doing it given the mess they were in during the late 19th century.

 

[Communist Wizard]

If the British can't control Afghanistan, what makes you think the Russians could?

The Great Game is more a figment of British imagination than reality. The Russians were not planning a push into India. Nor were they capable of doing it given the mess they were in during the late 19th century.

The Russians supported the Afghanis before, why not this time?