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The Soviet Union’s decade-long incursion into Afghanistan has been compared to the American experience in Vietnam. Both wars bore some surface similarities to each other, though closer examination would reveal a multitude of differences behind the circumstances that brought them about, the relative commitment both great powers had to these conflicts, and the motivations for their involvement in the first place. But one striking similarity exists: both wars saw heavy use of the helicopter in an...

The Soviet Union’s decade-long incursion into Afghanistan has been compared to the American experience in Vietnam. Both wars bore some surface similarities to each other, though closer examination would reveal a multitude of differences behind the circumstances that brought them about, the relative commitment both great powers had to these conflicts, and the motivations for their involvement in the first place. But one striking similarity exists: both wars saw heavy use of the helicopter in an...

The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict that lasted from 1979 to 1989, with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan to support the communist government in Kabul. The war was a significant event in the Cold War, as it marked the first time the Soviet Union had directly intervened in the affairs of a neighboring state outside […]

Both the Russian invasions were somehow triggered by the United States

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America should repeat its mistake What America needs is honest and self-supporting men in charge of Afghanistan r The writer is a political analyst. Email: [email protected] Twitter @Imran_Jan They say repeating the same mistake is foolish and wouldn’t yield different results. However, that is not true in Afghanistan. In The Bear Trap, Mark Adkin and Mohammad Yousaf stress that it was the genius of General Akhtar Abdul Rahman, who single-handedly made a meticulous plan about the kinetic ...