Government Document

\We Have Not Learned How to Wage War There\: The Soviet Approach in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 Includes Maps

2011

Overview

Examines points related to Soviet Union's planning for invasion of Afghanistan, tactics for meeting threat posed by insurgents, and operations to remove Soviet forces from Afghanistan while installing \"viable, if not popular,\" Afghan government.

• Subject: Afghan refugees / Air bases / Amin, Hafizullah / Andropov, Yurii V / Brezhnev, Leonid I / Central Asia / Chernenko, Konstantin U / Communications / Communism / Counterinsurgency / Coups d'état / Daoud, Sardar Mohammed / Ethnic and racial groups / Geography / Gorbachev, Mikhail S / Guerrillas / Herat (Afghanistan) / Hindu Kush (Afghanistan) / Jalalabad (Afghanistan) / Kabul-Termez Road (Afghanistan) / Kandahar (Afghanistan) / Karmal, Babrak / Khost (Afghanistan) / Kornienko, Georgii M / Kushka (Turkmenistan) / Masoud, Ahmad Shah / Military logistics / Military strategy / Muslims / Najibullah, Sayyid Mohammed / Nation-building / Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan) / Ogarkov, Nikolai V / Pakistan / Paktia Province (Afghanistan) / Panjshir Valley (Afghanistan) / Pashtuns / Political history / Political strategy / Religious groups / Rural population / Saur Revolution in Afghanistan / Shindand (Afghanistan) / Soviet military assistance / Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan / Soviet Union Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989) / Soviet Union Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan (1988-1989) / Tajiks / Taraki, Nur Mohammed / Tukharinov, Yuri Vladimirovich / Turkestan Military District (Uzbekistan) / Turkmens / Ustinov, Dmitrii F / Uzbeks / Varennikov, Valentin I / Zahir Shah, Mohammed / Zhawar (Afghanistan)