| Directory > Society > History > By Time Period > Twentieth Century > Wars and Conflicts > Soviet-Afghan War National Security Archive: Afghanistan - Lessons from the Last War
Translations of original Soviet documents and US evaluations of the situation, with commentary.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/
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Compound War Case Study: The Soviets in Afghanistan
A study by Robert F. Baumann.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/csi/research/ComWar/comwarbaumann.asp
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Soviet Aircraft Losses in the 1979-1989 Afghan War
List of aircraft and servicemen, with pictures and maps.
http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/afghanistan/index.htm
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Final Retreat?
A discussion on the Soviet pull-out. A transcript of PBS news transmitted on February 9, 1989.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/segment_2-9-89.html
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Afghan War 1979-1989
Provides links for information related to the war 1979 -1989, a discussion forum and guestbook. In
English and Russian.
http://www.afghanwar.spb.ru/index_e.html
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Country in Conflict
Experts discuss the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and US backing for the resistance fighters.
Transcript of News Hour with Jim Lehrer on November 17, 1983.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_11-17-83.html
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Afghanistan: Crossroads of Conflict
A report published in The Atlantic in May 1980, focusing on the Marxist revolution and Soviet
intervention.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/80may/kwitny.htm
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The Dreaded Devil's Spiral: Treaties and Events Leading to the 1979 Invasion
Mir Hekmatullah Sadat explains Afghan-Soviet relations from Afghanistan's independence until the
soviet occupation. With pictures and chronology.
http://afghanmagazine.com/oct99/articles/1979invasion/
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
A historical look at the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
http://members.tripod.com/aryana_afghan/main.htm
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Silent Soldier and The Bear Trap
Two books by Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf about the recent wars in Afghanistan, mostly from a
Pakistani viewpoint. Full text is online in English, Urdu and Farsi.
http://www.afghanbooks.com/
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National Security Archive: Afghanistan Collection
Information on a microfiche collection on Afghanistan 1973-1990, with order address.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/afghanistan/afghanistan.html
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Afghanistan: War Without End?
Experts discuss the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the U.S. reaction to heightened tensions
in the region in december 1985. Transcript of News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_12-27-85.html
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Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979 to 1982
The full text of this book by M. Hassan Kakar (1995) is provided by AfghanVoice.
http://www.afghanvoice.com/afgsovinv.htm
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Artillery and Counterinsurgency: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan
Discussing the fight between the technologically-advanced Russian forces and the Afghan guerilla.
http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Arty.htm
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Medical Support in a Counter-Guerrilla War
Lester W. Grau and William A. Jorgensen discuss the epidemiologic lessons to be learned from the
Soviet-Afghan war.
http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Afgmed.htm
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Night Stalkers and Mean Streets: Afghan Urban Guerrillas
An excerpt from "The Other Side of the Mountain" by Ali A. Jalali and Lester W. Grau,
containing interviews with Mujahideen guerillas.
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/nightstalker/nightstalker.htm
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Road Warriors of the Hindu Kush
The Battle for the Lines of Communication in the Soviet-Afghan War analysed by Lester W. Grau. With
maps.
http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Roadwar.htm
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The Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1978-1989
Documents from the Russian and East German Archives, presented by the "Cold War International
History Project", Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
http://cwihp.si.edu/cwihplib.nsf/16c6b2fc83775317852564a400054b28/158ff84a122a937a852564ab006c9....
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Soviet War in Afghanistan: History and Harbinger of Future War?
An article by Mohammad Yahya Nawroz of the Army of Afghanistan and Lester W. Grau of the U.S. Army.
http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Waraf.htm
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The Soviet-Afghan War - How a Superpower Fought and Lost
The Russian General Staff's study of the war, translated and edited by Lester W. Grau and Michael
A. Gress, is presented. Includes online-text of introduction, editor preface and foreword [html and
pdf].
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/grasov.html
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