Afghanistan: Why we fightJim Arnold
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however, the Soviets learned that the intelligentsia of Afghanistan’s cities—a minority in a mainly illiterate country still clinging to ancient ways—did not represent the land’s true nature. Like many predecessors, the Soviets realized that if the Afghans excelled at anything, it was warfare...
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“I think any operations officer would have told you that the Afghan regular army did not have that will to fight on their own, if we left, and consistently would have said that over and over again.” “如果你向作战官员询问战斗意愿,他们会根据他们与友军的关系告诉你真实的情况,”他说。“...
So why did Moscow do it? Afghanistan Had Long Held Strategic Importance A political cartoon of Nicholas II and General Obruchev looking over a ‘War Map’ with ‘Russia’ on one side, ‘England’ on the other, and ‘Afghanistan’ between them; beneath the table, having come through a tra...
We didn’t do this as a favor to the Soviets. We did this in order for national interest. We recognize countries act based on security competition. So we don’t want to provoke them in a way that makes them react to preserve their own security in a manner whi...
Why did the US invade Afghanistan in the first place? It was al Qaeda, the international terror network, not Afghanistan’s Taliban – a regional Islamic political and military force – that attacked the US on 9/11. But the masterminds of the attack, including Osama bin Laden, had been op...
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