Jere Van Dyk: A historical perspective of the fight over Afghanistan
Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...
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“Satan’s Chariot”: How The Russian Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Terrorized Afghanistan
Once these hornet-like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter was emblematic of the American ...
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Soviet - Afghan War - The USSR's Downfall
The collapse of the Soviet Empire came suddenly, mostly due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Let's talk about that! Zelenskyy explains his position after disrupted meeting with Trump Former SpaceX ...
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I. Introduction
Afghanistan has suffered from over two ... the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia. In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in late April 1992 ...
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In the war’s aftermath, Ukraine will face a new kind of instability
He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pushed back ...
Putin’s war will not end until the Soviet empire is rebuilt
It should be clear to everyone that Putin has no interest in peace, something Sir Keir Starmer reiterated today at the ...
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Afghanistan War
Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the Afghanistan war. Thousands of ...