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- Afghan War 1979-1989 - Provides links for information related to the war 1979 -1989, a discussion forum and guestbook. In English and Russian.
www.afghanwar.spb.ru/index_e.html
- Afghanistan: Crossroads of Conflict - A report published in The Atlantic in May 1980, focusing on the the Marxist revolution and Soviet intervention.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/80may/kwitny.htm
- Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979 to 1982 - The full text of this book by M. Hassan Kakar (1995) is provided by AfghanVoice.
www.afghanvoice.com/afgsovinv.htm
- Afghanistan: War Without End? - Experts discuss the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the U.S. reaction to heightened tensions in the region in december 1985. Transcript of News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_12-27-85.html
- Artillery and Counterinsurgency: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan - Discussing the fight between the technologically-advanced Russian forces and the Afghan guerilla.
www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Arty.htm
- Compound War Case Study: The Soviets in Afghanistan - A study by Robert F. Baumann.
www-cgsc.army.mil/csi/research/ComWar/comwarbaumann.asp
- Country in Conflict - Experts discuss the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and US backing for the resistance fighters. Transcript of News Hour with Jim Lehrer on November 17, 1983.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_11-17-83.html
- Final Retreat? - A discussion on the Soviet pull-out. A transcript of PBS news transmitted on February 9, 1989.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/segment_2-9-89.html
- Medical Support in a Counter-Guerrilla War - Lester W. Grau and William A. Jorgensen discuss the epidemiologic lessons to be learned from the Soviet-Afghan war.
www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Afgmed.htm
- National Security Archive: Afghanistan Collection - Information on a microfiche collection on Afghanistan 1973-1990, with order address.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/afghanistan/afghanistan.html
- Night Stalkers and Mean Streets: Afghan Urban Guerrillas - An excerpt from "The Other Side of the Mountain" by Ali A. Jalali and Lester W. Grau, containing interviews with Mujahideen guerillas.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/nightstalker/nightstalker.htm
- Road Warriors of the Hindu Kush - The Battle for the Lines of Communication in the Soviet-Afghan War analysed by Lester W. Grau. With maps.
www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Roadwar.htm
- Silent Soldier and The Bear Trap - Two books by Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf about the recent wars in Afghanistan, mostly from a Pakistani viewpoint. Full text is online in English, Urdu and Farsi.
www.afghanbooks.com
- Soviet Aircraft Losses in the 1979-1989 Afghan War - List of aircraft and servicemen, with pictures and maps.
www.aeronautics.ru/archive/afghanistan/index.htm
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - A historical look at the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
members.tripod.com/aryana_afghan/main.htm
- Soviet War in Afghanistan: History and Harbinger of Future War? - An article by Mohammad Yahya Nawroz of the Army of Afghanistan and Lester W. Grau of the U.S. Army.
www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Waraf.htm
- The Dreaded Devil's Spiral: Treaties and Events Leading to the 1979 Invasion - Mir Hekmatullah Sadat explains Afghan-Soviet relations from Afghanistan's independence until the soviet occupation. With pictures and chronology.
afghanmagazine.com/oct99/articles/1979invasion
- The Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1978-1989 - Documents from the Russian and East German Archives, presented by the "Cold War International History Project", Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
cwihp.si.edu/cwihplib.nsf/16c6b2fc83775317852564a400054b28/158ff84a122a937a852564ab006c96a8?OpenDocument
- The Soviet-Afghan War - How a Superpower Fought and Lost - The Russian General Staff´s study of the war, translated and edited by Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress, is presented. Includes online-text of introduction, editor preface and foreword [html and pdf].
www.kansaspress.ku.edu/grasov.html
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