Trump’s bombing of Yemen risks repeating past mistakes in conflicts like Vietnam and Afghanistan amidst the ongoing ...
The theatres of conflict in Sana’a, bordering Saudi Arabia, are bare, steep and craggy mountains ... Afghan mujahideen would expel the Soviets from Afghanistan, their counterparts would strive ...
The tomb of the ‘evil’ Mughal king is 500 km from the Maharashtra city that is under curfew. Here’s where history’s other bad ...
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 ... the Soviet forces learned that the tough Afghan terrain of mountains, valleys, and deserts posed such unique challenges to conventional ...
Babych doesn’t know how long she and her family will be allowed to stay in Stoughton now that President Donald Trump has ended humanitarian parole — the immigration channel that tens of thousands of ...
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan exposed how the absence of ... Soviet mechanized and motor rifle units, particularly in mountain warfare, often failed to react dynamically to ambushes, as ...
The Cyclical Failures of Russian Military Culture from Crimea to Ukraine Following President Zelensky's meeting at the White House, global attention should not only focus on Ukraine's battlefield ...
President Trump, who promised to end wars and never start one, has travelled 8,000 miles to bomb Yemen. If he continues, Yemen will be his Vietnam and Afghanistan. In many ways they are similar ...
When the Civil War broke out, the men of Cold Mountain, North Carolina ... a submarine that can move silently under the sea. The Soviets dispatch their entire navy to destroy it and tell the ...
The Soviets used donkeys extensively in Afghanistan, where they proved invaluable in mountain warfare, and both US and NATO forces later adopted the same practice in the same war. Donkeys require no ...
According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...