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Volume 6, Issue 2.
Summer
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, the attention of the world was focused on this arid mountainous country, strategically situated between Pakistan and Iran. Afghan insurgents engaged Soviet and Afghan Army forces in a fierce guerrilla war. Recently, the conflict has received less attention in the West, but the fighting ... read morecontinues. In this article, Thomas Cynkin looks at the events following the precipitous Saur Coup which led to today's conflict, and then analyzes the insurgent factions and strategies, and the Soviet response.
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