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Friday, March 6, 2015
History - '3 Hut Uprising' of 1980
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Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) has provided us with a synopsis of the '3 Hut Uprising' that took place in ...
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Movie - "The Beast"
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I recently read a Tom Ricks review of the movie Fury starring Brad Pitt. Fury is set in World War II and centers on a Sherman tank crew. R...
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Reasons for Soviet Union Invasion (1979)
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A recently published tract provides us with an explanation of why the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. This paper is unique, so ...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Soviet COIN in Afghanistan: The Manwaring Pardigm
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An interesting article has been posted on Small Wars Journal about the Soviet Union counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan. The author d...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Soviet-Era Journalist Recalls End of Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan
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A Soviet journalist who covered many years of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan spent much of the final year observing and reporting on t...
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