Why did the Soviet Union fail to defeat the Mujahedin?
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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 1,7, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Department of International Politics), language: English, abstract: Throughout the 1980s the war in Afghanistan, which started as a civil war, developed into a "bloody Cold War battlefield" (Jalali, 2001: 85) with Soviet troops fighting alongside Afghan government troops against resistance fighters supported by Pakistan and the USA. During this almost ten years lasting war, which ended with the withdrawal of the Red Army in February 1989, the Soviet Union fa...
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 1,7, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Department of International Politics), language: English, abstract: Throughout the 1980s the war in Afghanistan, which started as a civil war, developed into a "bloody Cold War battlefield" (Jalali, 2001: 85) with Soviet troops fighting alongside Afghan government troops against resistance fighters supported by Pakistan and the USA. During this almost ten years lasting war, which ended with the withdrawal of the Red Army in February 1989, the Soviet Union failed to defeat the Mujahedin primarily due to an initially false strategic alignment and severe tactical deficiencies.
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