The code has been copied to your clipboard. When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people ...

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I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...