30 апр. 2024 г. · The Soviets were unable to defeat the Mujahideen and the war became a costly quagmire for the Soviet Union, draining its resources and causing ...

13 апр. 2021 г. · The Afghan army in the early period saw a lot of desertion and defection and like the South Vietnamese were brave but dependent on Russian ...

19 апр. 2021 г. · It was "working" but they weren't close. Soviet strategy in Afghanistan was the same as in every other Russian "COIN" effort since Circassia in ...

7 апр. 2024 г. · The USSR spent a lot of money on this war because it was engaged in full-fledged state-building in Afghanistan. Considering that the Soviet- ...

17 мая 2017 г. · Human terrain was absolutely a larger contributor to Soviet (and indeed, American) failings in Afghanistan. There is a bit of a popular ...

12 янв. 2021 г. · The rundown in brief is that the Soviets sent troops to Afghanistan to uphold an election that saw a left-wing party elected to head the ...

15 авг. 2021 г. · The Soviet Union would have succeeded in clamping down Afghanistan like it had done in the Central Asian Islamic Republics. It was brutal ...

11 авг. 2023 г. · The invaded to overthrow what they saw an out of control government which was inviting rebellion with draconian and overly violent domestic ...

17 сент. 2022 г. · Everyone knew that the US was supplying the Afghans, but critically they were not attacking the USSR directly. For OP's question, you could also ...

14 авг. 2021 г. · These listed factors made the Soviet Union reluctantly mobilise its massive military assets into the mountainous country of Afghanistan to ...