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The helicopter of warships floated above his head, watching Battalion 154 slaughtered and refused to open fire: “I am not permitted because of the international border.”
This unit of Muslims who was harmed by livestock taken from the Soviet-Central Asian Republic-Republic-Republic of the first shot of the Afghan War in 1979, the shooting of President Nur Muhammad Taraki. Now, to return the death of their colleagues, they oppose orders and target the Mujahideen base in Pakistan.
The cold voice, the historian of Lester Grau and Ali Jalali have recorded, then talked about wireless: “I’m tail number 25, and I’m ready to shoot. Give me the target. “
Last week, the United States Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (Sigar) issued the latest in a series of reports, explaining how a national military collected more than two decades at a cost of $ 88 billion which exploded in a few weeks ago when the Taliban took more. Among other things, the report blamed President Joe Biden’s decision to weaken morally to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021, dependence on technology that could not be maintained by Afghan troops, and bad decisions about leadership and tactics.
Sigar reports are honest introspection models and careful study. The most important problem, there is no: United States failure to destroy the Taliban holy places across the border in Pakistan.
“In the past,” Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko regretted the 1986 Politburo meeting where the leaders concluded that the war was missing, “We talked about the fact that it was necessary to close the Afghanistan border with Pakistan and Iran … Experience has shown that we cannot do this “. There is an important lesson there for all military that fight the rebellion with the Transporder – Indian base is among them.
From the beginning, the Soviet military understood that the real problem was on the border. In 1982, former KGB officer Vladimir Kuzichkin had noted, the Soviet military developed a plan to seal the border with Pakistan by building a supervisory chain and a mines and then used troops in the air to destroy the partisan formation that was closed in Afghanistan.” The plan, however, will require more than 3.00,000 Soviet troops – far more than political leadership that will be sanctioned and the country is capable.
Massive mining of the border, plan B military Soviet, did not prevent the movement of transborder-and when the United States increased funds for Mujahideen, the deadly rebellion against the Soviet Union grew.
From 1984, the Soviet launched a series of attacks targeting the Mujahideen Supply route, which aims to cut the rebels from their bases in Pakistan. The use of large -scale air power, which includes village carpet bombings, creates a 50 kilometer wide zone along the border. “The destruction of the Afghan village,” military historian Thomas Bruscino has observed, “While morally despicable, indeed created problems for guerrillas who fought deep in the country.”
Technology, however, leveling the field again. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supplies the FIM-92 Stinger, a portable air defense missile, which makes it more dangerous for Soviet aircraft to fly low. That means the mujahideen supply convoy can return to crossing the border.
