Historical Map of South & Southwest Asia (21 May 1916 - Russian invasion of Anatolia: With the British evacuating Gallipoli and in trouble at Kut, many Ottoman troops could now be sent to the Caucasus front. Anticipating this, Russia launched a preemptiv
On Wednesday, Trump appeared to defend the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 during a Cabinet meeting. “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” Trump said. “They were right to be there.” Subscribe to our free weekl...
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in Austria, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. After 1990, Russian riverboats were no longer ordered, and the business continued with older vessels. The same situation occurred with the Russian passenger fleet, as ships were banned in North America after Russia's invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989...
Tuesday and Wednesday are a bit of a blur. On the 21st I had no idea if the invasion was going to happen, but then different things started to happen that convinced me (22nd) that it was going to happen and then (23rd) that it was going to happen very soon. I think it was a ...
the subsequent invasion of eastern Ukraine, and the MH17 shoot-down, the world’s scrutiny of Russian behavior in the region dwindled. Yet Ukraine—site of the continent’s first military incursion by a neighbor since Stalin subjugated Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain—is, as U.S. Deput...
Taliban Afghanistan operated an unknown number of captured BTR-70s, but these were all destroyed in the US invasion in 2002. The PLO is rumored to have a force of 50 of them, and Mexico is rumored to have recently taken delivery of an unknown number of them. They saw large-scale combat...
“An author of countless books and the editor of my books, on the first day of the invasion she emailed me the draft of my next book with the postscript ‘Sending this while there is still Internet access, save it.’ I did.
A close friend of mine from Kyiv refused to communicated me after the Russian invasion started, even though I’ve never been a Russian citizen. But later I wrote to her in Ukrainian (my mom and dad are from Ukraine), and we had the most painful conversation for an hour and a half. ...