No retreat: the failure of Soviet decision-making in the Afghan War, 1979-1989

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to settle a quarrel among competing factions within the recently installed communist government, and to suppress the anti-communist resistance that the Afghan governments ideology and conduct had...

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Main Author: Fenzel, Michael R.
Other Authors: Moran, Daniel
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37626