Already in the 18th century, the famous Great Game between Russia and England for dominance in Central Asia took place in Afghanistan. Since then, the country at the Hindu Kush has seen little peace. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union and the USA fought their proxy war there. In the 1990s, the radical Islamist Taliban controlled the country, before Western powers deployed their troops after September 11, 2001. This deployment has also resulted in numerous casualties, increasingly among young Bundeswehr soldiers. In this flashbook, you will quickly gain an overview of the situation in Afghanistan, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, the complex background of the war situation, the role of the USA, and the reformed deployment of the Bundeswehr.