How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention

P. Baev

DOI:10.1177/2233865912453802

Corpus ID: 144479524

How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention

@article{Baev2012HowAW,
  title={How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention},
  author={P. Baev},
  journal={International Area Studies Review},
  year={2012},
  volume={15},
  pages={249 - 262}
}

P. Baev
Published 2012
Sociology
International Area Studies Review

The self-propelling dynamics of violence in Afghanistan, which appears set to outlast the as yet on-going peace-making, is rooted in the impact of the Soviet intervention, in which fighting was only an element of the complex political drama of destruction of the Afghan state. The intervention was launched in response to the escalation of domestic crisis in Afghanistan, about which the Soviet leadership knew much but understood little. The Soviet Army showed the capacity for learning but the… Expand

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