The Soviet-Afghan War: Another Look

Abstract

This research effort reviews the Soviet military's involvement in Afghanistan from 4 general perspectives: (1) systemic problems in Soviet military culture, (2) the use of surprise, (3) operational maneuver and preeminence of aviation and (4) employment of mines and chemical weapons, as an extension of maneuver warfare. This paper concludes that the lessons of this war have been learned by the Russians. There is every reason to believe that they can achieve the level of Doctrinal changes required to be successful in future 'local' interventions. It must be accompanied, however, by corresponding socio-military reform. Surprise, Operational maneuver, Chemical and mine warfare.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 17, 1994
Accession Number
ADA283433

Entities

People

  • Mark S. Caren

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Operations
  • Minority Groups
  • Security
  • Soviet-Afghan War
  • Students
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.