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Originally Posted by shocktroop I voted yes.
A large reason to the faliure of the Soviets in Afghanistan, In my opinion, is their tactics. This was the first time the USSR fought a war against rebels, and their tactics of fighting mass battles agains NATO proved to be obsolete.
Some other reasons for their faliure mite be the weapons that they used.
In order to fight rebels/terrorists effectivly you need a large variaty of guided air-to-ground and ground-to-ground weapons- somethng the USSR had only a limited amount and variaty of.
The US and Israel, for example, proved to be very effective against rebels/terrorists because they devloped new tactics and use a wide variaty of guided air-to-ground and ground-to-ground weapons. |
What the f**k is this then?
Ask any Afghani fighter what his worst nightmare was during the war and he will say the Hind.(which was usually followed by a mig carpet bombing session).
Yes technically they lost as they never held their objective,but as I was enlightened in the vietnam thread I now have to agree with the previous member who said the Soviets kicked ass but were let down by the politicians.