WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Game between England and Russia began in 1830 and lasted throughout the 19th century. The British were concerned about Russian advances in Central Asia. England used Afghanistan as a buffer state to protect all approaches to British India from a Russian invasion.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th century British and Russian Empires over influence in Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and later Tibet. The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -In intelligence history, the “Great Game” described a complex rivalry-characterized by wars, assassinations, and espionage conspiracies-between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia and the Near East.

Detailed explanation-4: -Russia engaged in the Crimean War and the Great Game due to geopolitics. Russia fought the Ottomans in the Crimean War in hopes of winning control of the Black Sea so it could ship grain into the Mediterranean Sea. Although Russia lost the war, the Ottomans lost almost all of their land in Europe and parts of Africa.

Detailed explanation-5: -Origins of Conflict The British Lord Ellenborough started “The Great Game” on January 12, 1830, with an edict establishing a new trade route from India to Bukhara, using Turkey, Persia, and Afghanistan as a buffer against Russia to prevent it from controlling any ports on the Persian Gulf.

Detailed explanation-6: -"The Russians won the Great Game, ‘’ complained US strategists at the time. Then the US and its allies began providing financial and military support for the Afghan insurgents, especially after 1981. The resulting mujahedin rebellion attracted non-Afghan Muslims who came to fight alongside them, including Osama.