The principles of the doctrine were so broad that the Soviets even used it to justify their military intervention in the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979.
Princípy doktríny boli tak široké, že Sovieti ju dokonca používali, aby ospravedlnili svoju vojenskú intervenciu mimo krajín Varšavskej zmluvy v Afganistane v roku 1979.