Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

["John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Chris <sepplainer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does the Soveit/afgan conflict. Make a fair example? I don't think it does
>  but that is as close as I can come after some thought.

If you consider the fact that the Afghans made very little progress
before they started getting high-tech missiles shipped in, it kind of
skews it.  The majority of the Russian troops were also exceedingly
ill-trained, and the doctrine they were working with was garbage too.

And you still can't point to a lot of "battlefield defeats" but to
political effects.  In fact, the Sovs didn't actually pull out of
Afghanistan until the sequence of events that would lead to the
collapse of the Soviet Union was already in motion.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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