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"We Have Not Learned How to Wage War There" The Soviet Approach in Afghanistan 1979-1989 - Occasional Paper 36 (Paperback)
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"We Have Not Learned How to Wage War There" The Soviet Approach in Afghanistan 1979-1989 - Occasional Paper 36 (Paperback)
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The Combat Studies Institute (CSI) is pleased to present its latest
publication in the Occasional Paper Series, "We Have Not Learned
How to Wage War There" The Soviet Approach in
Afghanistan,1979-1989, by Mr. Matt Matthews. For this work, Mr.
Matthews collected a wide variety of sources on the subject, many
of them of primary accounts, and used these materials to provide an
overview of the evolution of the Soviet operational approach in
Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. This Soviet experience offers a
number of useful insights for American military professionals who
are, as of this writing, conducting operations in Afghanistan. Mr.
Matthews begins his study by examining the Soviets' planning for
its invasion of Afghanistan and initial goals for that campaign.
The author then looks closely at how the Soviets adapted their
tactics and organization to meet the committed and resilient
insurgent threat that emerged to do battle against Soviet forces.
Despite conventional interpretations of this campaign in
Afghanistan which emphasize the rigidity of Soviet methods,
Matthews' study suggests that the Soviets were flexible in their
overall approach. The Soviet government did, for example, launch
nation-building initiatives that would look familiar to American
military officers who served in Afghanistan in the first decade of
the 21st century. These efforts, however, were seriously hindered
by a Soviet military culture that opposed a more comprehensive
campaign to foster a popular central Afghan government. Matthews
concludes his study by examining Soviet operations to extract their
forces from Afghanistan while nonetheless leaving a viable, if not
popular, Afghan government in place.
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