LOW 17 Aug 2021 Chinese State Media Outlet Says US Will 'Abandon' Taiwan Like Afghanistan 'Once a War Breaks Out' [CNSNews] LOW 17 Aug 2021 PLAAF Exercises in Bashi Channel off southern Taiwan after 'Provocations' [Reuters] LOW 12 Aug 2021 China building third missile field for hundreds...
France/Federal Republic of Germany (1955?-1961) Anti-Tank Reconnaissance Vehicle – 1 to 2 Prototypes Built With the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, the new army of West Germany, a decision was made to acquire small tracked armored reconnaissance vehicles for use in the so-called Panzer...
He argued that the US-supported Saudi state was an illegitimate and unworthy guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He combined the language of the Islamist groups that had recently fought in Afghanistan with the rhetoric Iran had long used to attack the Saudis.[91] ...
Biden aims to off-set this disbelief and avoid being labelled as the mastermind of chaos in Afghanistan through a tacit return to the US’ notorious policy of “armed overwatch”, a combination of strategies — including the CIA and special operations forces, airpower, and aid to security forc...
Thus, the Soviet Union sent troops to preserve communist rule in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Afghanistan (1979). For its part, the United States helped overthrow a left-wing government in Guatemala (1954), supported an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba (1961)...
How did the war in Afghanistan start? And how did NATO become involved in this conflict?Thesedetails are never discussed because they have for nearly two decades been hidden behind a shroud of secrecy. But now, after nearly two decades of lies, the remarkable truth about the secret documents...
Hotchkiss H39 in Israeli Service State of Israel (1948-Unknown) Light Tank – 10 Operated The Hotchkiss H39 was an improvement over the previous H35 model, a light infantry tank created for the French 1933 infantry tank program. However, the H35 was rejected by the infantry and ended up ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside...
In Afghanistan, the US and UK sought to combat insurgents, train security forces and conduct reconstruction within a country without a functioning national government. The UK unwisely offered to lead the expansion of the Karzai government’s control into Helmand province, assuming that it could be...
After September 11, troops were deployed to Afghanistan(阿富汗)under the NATO-led ISAF and the organization continues to operate in a range of roles sending trainers to Iraq, assisting in counter-piracy operations and most recently enforced a NATO-led no-fly zone over Libya(利比亚)in 2011 in ...