The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 1979 was, in many respects, a milestone in Soviet history. On the one hand it represented the high-water mark o
This analysis focuses on the purely operational and strategic lessons of the war in Afghanistan. It insists that lessons of these kinds were present and that th
The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields, where the United States won every tactical engagement, but at t