The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

Comments by senior Soviet leaders about the reasons for Moscow’s failure in Afghanistan are eerily similar to those being made today. In a 1986 Politburo meeting focused on the Afghan situation ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

In 1982, Igor Yerin was working in a Moscow car plant when he was drafted into the Soviet army at age 20 and sent to Afghanistan to fight U.S.-backed guerrillas known as the mujahedeen. He ended ...

The Soviet army was driven from Afghanistan 30 years ago. Putin’s Russia is repackaging that defeat as a patriotic victory. February 14, 2019 More than 6 years ago ...

Still, Coll, the author of Ghost Wars, a book that charts the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan from the 1979 Soviet invasion to Sept. 11, 2001, calls the ink spot strategy the best of a ...

The key lesson: Without long-term foreign support and funding, the Afghan military and government will struggle to survive. When the last Soviet troops departed for home they left behind a fairly ...

Soviet Lessons From Afghanistan. By Mikhail Gorbachev. Feb. 4, 2010; ... Russia is right in asking why, during the years of U.S. and NATO military presence in Afghanistan, ...

We’re not the only nation with a military that got bogged down in Afghanistan. The Russian movie “Battle for Afghanistan” takes place during the final days of the USSR’s 1980s campaign in ...

When the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in February 1989, its client government in Kabul managed to survive for three years because the Soviets provided a lifeline of military ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan see parallels — and stark contrasts — with the U.S. experience and exit after two decades there.