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	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soviet military advisers host a party for their Afghan counterparts, at its conclusion all are imprisoned.
		Western analysts at the time also believed that the Soviet Union's presence in Afghanistan was motivated by a desire to bring its forces closer to a strategic choke-point: the mouth of the Persian gulf, the conduit for most of the world's oil supertankers.
		The Beast is a movie made in 1989 about a Soviet tank during the invasion of Afghanistan, set in 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_Invasion_of_Afghanistan

	RUSSIAN KGB - Spetsnaz - Russian Special Forces Training /Soviet Afghan War
		Afghan communists (the DRA) were involved in the immediate struggle and a large number of countries supplied the Mujahideen during this "Cold War" hot war.
		The war was stalemated, but no one in the Soviet Politburo was making any decisions during the “twilight of the General Secretaries”.
		Soviet offensive tactics included the combined-arms attack, the advance to contact, the cordon and search, the air assault, the base camp siege, the base camp attack, the clearing attack, the raid, the ambush, the artillery offensive, air interdiction and encirclement.
	www.kgb-militaryschool.com /view/Soviet_Afghan_War

	Afghan War Rugs: A Sub-group with Iranian Influence
		Soviets and the Soviet phase of the war in Afghanistan ended.
		When the war came the people in the Herat area, in western Afghanistan, were among the unfavored and were forced to depend on Iran, her neighbor to the west, who was in very poor straits herself because of the various U.S. policies to weaken her and the later, debilitating war with Iraq.
		Within the overall classification af Afghan war rugs are a discrete type (war aksi) which measure roughly 2'x3,' have a border 2" to 3" wide and a field dominated by a representation of an AK-47 (Kalishnikov) Russian assault rifle, as well as AK-74s, 2' to 2.5' long.
	www.rugreview.com /stuf/afgwar.htm

	INTRODUCTION Afghanistan Intelligence Agencies
		Although informal negotiations for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan had been underway since 1982, it was not until 1988 that the Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the United States and Soviet Union serving as guarantors, signed an agreement settling the major differences between them.
		About 14,500 Soviet and an estimated one to two million Afghan lives were lost between 1979 and the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.
		But soon it became apparent to the Soviets and the rest of the world that crushing the resistance was not a task that could be accomplished easily or quickly.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/afghan/intro.htm

	Lemar-Aftaab www.afghanmagazine.com October - December 1999 Vol 1 Issues 10 Visual Arts Woven Icons of War By Charles Lewis, Ph.D.
		In a spontaneous uprising even before the War began, the Afghan garrison in the city had been attacked, and as many as 100 Soviet citizens (Russian advisors, and their families) had been killed (Bradsher, 1985).
		The Soviet reprisal attacks and later military occupation were particularly brutal, stimulating an exodus of as many as 2 million refugees from Western Afghanistan into Eastern Iran.
		The flow of these war rugs or war aksi (smaller size carpets with a predominance of war iconography) from Afghanistan and the refugee camps to the West has been documented in several articles in the Oriental Rug Review (O'Callaghan, 1997; O'Connell, 1997).
	afghanmagazine.com /oct99/visualarts/askiwarrugs

	A War of Ugly Images
		During the Afghan-Soviet war of the 1980s, Afghanistan was off-limits to reporters.
		Afghans followed the war against the infidel invader by listening to the BBC and the Voice of America on small battery-operated radios.
		The Soviet Union did not want the world, especially the Muslim world, to know that it was fighting in Afghanistan.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views04/1012-27.htm

	Lemar-Aftaab www.afghanmagazine.com October - December 1999 Vol 1 Issues 10 Articles The Dreaded Devil's Spiral: Treaties & Events leading to the 1979 Invasion By Mir Hekmatullah Sadat
		In 1953, when Sardar Muhammad Daud became Prime Minister for the monarchy, Soviet interventionism was bolstered in Afghanistan because of the Pashtunistan dispute; the dispute concerned the Afghans tribes trapped by the nominal Durand Line in the British created state of Pakistan.
		In return the Soviets accepted a certain quantity of Afghan natural gas from the Shiberghan field, in Jowzjan Province, laying a 60-mile pipeline to the Soviet border which was completed in 1967.
		With the arms and weapons arrived Soviet advisors and experts and what followed were thousands of Afghans going to the Soviet Union for military training.
	afghanmagazine.com /oct99/articles/1979invasion

	The MOUT Homepage
		Throughout the war, the Soviets and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) forces were never able to completely control Kandarhar and Herat.
		" The Bear " is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan war - but rather a series of snapshots of combat as seen by platoon, company, and battalion commanders - as well as military advisers.
		The Soviet War in Afghanistan: History and Harbinger of Future War (FMSO)
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/6453/afghanistan.html

	Afghan-Soviet Invasion
		Afghans reacted to Soviet invasion in an eruption of civil war against their government which was functionally guerrilla warfare against Soviet rule.
		Soviet concern that Iranian jihad might expand to Soviet borders was compounded by whatever percentage of the Afghan population was sympathetic to the current round of Iranian jihad and thus, conducive to its expansion.
		Soviets were gravely concerned that Khomeini might expand jihad east through Afghanistan then north to the Soviet-Afghan border.
	www.wsr3.com /country_profiles/afghanistan_soviet_invasion.html

	Beaten by the Bugs: The Soviet-Afghan War Experience
		Discontent with the Soviet leadership's handling of the Afghanistan War was a major cause leading to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
		The Soviet Afghanistan invasion on 25 December 1979, thrust Soviet ground forces into the middle of a civil war to fight a guerrilla enemy on some of the roughest terrain on earth.
		The recent Soviet experience in Afghanistan is an example of a modern force which was seriously hampered by disease and poor field sanitation, further stressing the commander's role in protecting the force.
	www.sovietarmy.com /documents/afghan-medical.html

	Why War? Iraqi Insurgents Take Page from Afghan Soviet Resistance
		This is reminiscent of Afghan children being terrified that Soviet soldiers were seeding the countryside with booby-trapped toys, or that wells had been poisoned, or food aid adulterated.
		I served as the Central Intelligence Agency's quartermaster and political agent to the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation from 1986 until the Soviets left in 1989.
		The insurgents' strategy could have been crafted by Sun Tzu, the Chinese military tactician, who more than 2,500 years ago wrote, in The Art of War, that the highest realization of warfare is to attack the enemy's strategy.
	www.why-war.com /news/2003/11/09/iraqiins.html

	The History Guy: The Afghan Civil War (1978-Present)
		During the Soviet war, the Hizb-i Islami was one of the factions supported by neighboring Pakistan and also received significant weaponry from the United States.
		The war in Afghanistan was over for the Russians, but not for the Afghans, who continued their civil war.
		The Soviets decided to occupy Afghanistan in order to maintain Communist power, but were dissatisfied with Amin as the Afghan leader capable of accomplishing this goal.
	www.historyguy.com /afghan_civil_war.html

	Amazon.com: Books: The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
		Several recurring themes are that the Soviets/Russians have not given accurate statistics on the war, the Soviet military had thoroughly penetrated the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan before the invasion, and the Marxist-Leninist framework kept the generals from making a proper assessment of their task.
		However, it is neither a strong history of the Soviet war in Afghanistan nor a strong analysis of Soviet performance in the war.
		"The Soviet Afghan War" is the big picture as seen by colonels and generals.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/070061186X?v=glance

	The Origins of the Soviet-Afghan War
		By direct order of H. Amin, fabricated rumors were deliberately spread throughout the DRA, smearing the Soviet Union and casting a shadow on the activities of Soviet personnel in Afghanistan, who had been restricted in their efforts to maintain contact with Afghan representatives.
		Babrak can be described as one of the more theoretically equipped leaders of PDPA, who soberly and objectively evaluates the situation in Afghanistan; he was always distinguished by his sincere sympathies for the Soviet Union, and commanded respect within party masses and the country at large.
		In the Soviet act of assistance to Afghanistan there is not a grain of avarice.
	www.alternativeinsight.com /Afghan_War.html

	AFGHANISTAN
		The war in Afghanistan was for the Soviets what Vietnam was to the Americans.
		Afghanistan is a grand-tactical simulation of the critical battles that occurred during the Afghan-Soviet war.
		The 280 counters show Soviet troops and Afghan geurrillas, as well as special weapons, and US/Pakistani forces.
	www.microgamedesigngroup.ca /AF.html

	Secret War - Enpsychlopedia
		In fact, the Secret War was the largest U.S. covert operation prior to the Afghan-Soviet War, with areas held by the Pathet Lao subjected to some of the heaviest U.S.-led bombing since World War II.
		Although the existence of the war was reported in the U.S., details were often unavailable due to official government denials that the war even existed.
		This Secret Army, supported by Air America and the Royal Lao Air Force, fought the North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, and their Pathet Lao allies to a standstill, greatly aiding U.S. interests in the war.
	www.grohol.com /mwiki/index.php/Secret_War

	Conversation with Khaled Ahmed, p. 5 of 7
		One gets the sense as a neophyte to the history of your country that there was a major turning point in the eighties with the emergence of the Reagan administration and the Afghan War, the Soviet invasion, and so on, and Pakistan's role through its ISI in that whole process.
		What was really unfortunate in the beginning of the Afghan War was that our democracy was overthrown.
		The process in Pakistan is that democracy becomes extremely destabilized and there are internal disturbances, and then finally the army overthrows the civilian government, and that's what happened at the beginning of the Afghan War.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people2/Ahmed/ahmed-con5.html

	End of the Cold War
		Soviet President Gorbachev and President Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (NIF) Treaty, the first arms treaty signed by the superpowers calling for elimination of a whole class of weapons--intermediate range missiles.
		Soviet President Gorbachev calls for disarmament by the year 2000.
		Soviet President Gorbachev proposes elimination of European short and medium range missiles.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /modernera/endofthe.htm

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	www.iran-afghan.com /search_Afghan_War_Rugs_.aspx

	Afghan/Soviet War Category
		A Soviet T-54 tank with a Sagger ATG missile attached to its cannon depicted on an Afghan war rug.
		Afghan War Rugs: A Sub-group With an Iranian Influence by Ron O'Callaghan.
		Afghan War Rugs: If it Walks Like a Duck...
	www.rugreview.com /catafgwa.htm

	Amazon.ca: Books: Afghanistan's unknown war: Memoirs of the Russian writers-war veterans of special forces, Army and Air Forces [sic] on Soviet-Afghan War and the Afghan terrorism
		The Afghan government forces ("tsarandoi") were considered soft targets by the rebel mujahedin ("dushmani"), and often proved to be of little help to their Soviet comrades.
		Basically, these are standard Soviet war memoirs: fairly impersonal accounts of battles, ambushes, casualties.
		Andrei Blinushov is the eidtor-in-chief of the KARTA history Journal published by the Moscow Human Rights Group; he is also the editor of a volume Memoirs of Russian War Veterans.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1894485157

	Warrug.com ©
		Soviet Era Afghan War Rugs with Maps of Afghanistan
		War Rug Motifs found in Afghan War Carpets
		Random Selection of our Collection of War Rugs and Carpets.
	www.warrug.com

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		Soviet Story Afghan War Rug with Three Maps of Afghanistan
		Soviet Exodus with Afghan Provinces War Rug GOOD ID#
		Camel Medallion Herati Afghan War Rug with Tank Border
	www.warrug.com /pages/rugs/sold

	Afghan Books
		Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf describes in his books, the extraordinary strategy of death by thousand cuts and the mastermind behind Afghan Jehad - General Akhtar Abdul Rehman.
	www.afghanbooks.com

	Soviet-afghan war - Network Live
		Look for Soviet-afghan war in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
		Sovetunio.gif Sovetunion_small.png Sovhoz Soviet Soviet Soviet - Afghan_War
		Look for Soviet-afghan war in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
	soviet-afghan_war.networklive.org

	Axis History Factbook: Bookstore - Soviet-Afghan War
		Artyom Borovik - The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
		Milan Hauner - The Soviet War in Afghanistan
		Hassan Kakar - Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response 1979-1982
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=4902

	Soviet-Afghan War
		400 million Russian land mines lay in Afghan soil
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Balcony/2823

	Afghan War Rugs
		First was the Soviet/Afghan War (1979-89), the civil war (1993-96), the recent Taliban rule (1996-01)and the present war (2001-?).
		EPILOGUE: Post 9/11 Afghan War Rugs, PART Ib Back in the early 1980s when we saw our first Afghan war rugs, we thought they would be a short term phenomenon, as the Afghan/Soviet War drew to a close that the rugs would no longer be woven.
		If the latter case is true it would be ironic since one of the first theories floating around about Afghan/Soviet war rugs twenty some years ago was that they were commissioned by Soviet soldiers and officers to be taken home as momentos of their service in the war.
	www.rugreview.com /stuf/afgwarb.htm

	Afghanistan and Afghan war
		After the retreat of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the direct dispute between Russia and America has temporally stopped but Pakistan, fearing to be devoured by India, has not stop to extend its influence zone to Afghanistan.
		When he was passing a tranquil retreat in a monastery in Thailand, he learnt that his superior, colonel Trautman had been captured by Soviet troops in Afghanistan and he was requested to immediately liberate him.
		Ironically, that time (1988), Americans were fighting on Afghan side against the Soviet Union.
	hikyaku.com /afghan

	The Soviet-Afghan War
		First, the real Soviet casualties from the war are still a secret, but almost double the official figures released by the Gorbachev regime in a great show of glasnost (openness).
		Although the conflict was smaller than the major wars in Europe or China for which the Soviet Army was preparing, it was the largest Soviet expeditionary force launched outside Soviet borders since the Hungarian uprising in 1956 or the Czechoslovakian invasion of 1968.
		But the war was actually fought at the low end of the tactical spectrum where platoon leaders tried to find and fight small, indigenous forces that would stand and fight only when the terrain and circumstances were to their advantage.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /grasovpreface.html (4087 words)

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