Afghanistan--the bear trap : the defeat of a superpower

Format:

Book

Title:

Afghanistan--the bear trap : the defeat of a superpower

Uniform Title:

Bear trap

Author:

Yousaf, Mohammad, 1937- author.

ISBN:

9780971170926

9780850528602

Publication:

Havertown, PA : Casemate, 2001.

Physical Description:

243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

General Note:

Originally published as: The bear trap. 1992.

Includes index.

Contents:

Beginnings -- The Mujahideen -- The Infidels -- Another Vietnam -- The role of the CIA -- The pipeline -- Training and tactics -- Feuding and fighting -- Kabul, the key -- The bear attacks -- Wonder weapons : gunships versus Stingers -- Bear baiting -- The bear backs off -- Two disasters.

Summary:

Memoir of the Pakistani brigadier general who organized and directed the training of the Mujahideen in secret camps within his own country, and covertly sent Pakistan Army teams inside Soviet occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s to assist the guerrilla's in their campaign of ambushes, assassinations, raids, and rocket attacks. This was the campaign that forced the Soviets to realize that they could never win. He is, in fact, as the book demonstrates, the only general since the Second World War to have directed troops in action within the Soviet Union's own borders.

Subject(s):

Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Geographic Term:

Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

History.

Added Author:

Adkin, Mark

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

How did the horrendous situation in Afghanistan, with all its implications for recent events and the present time, come to pass? What was the role of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence in the creation of what became the Taliban? What are the implications for the future and lessons from the past for American forces today?

This highly controversial book reveals one of the greatest military, political and financial secrets of recent times. It is nothing less than the true, if fantastic, account of how Pakistan and the USA covertly controlled the largest guerrilla war of the 20th Century, dealing to the Soviet Russian presence in Afghanistan a military defeat that has come to be called 'Russia's Vietnam'.

This compelling book, put together with great skill by the military author, Mark Adkin, is essential reading for anyone interested in the truth behind the Soviets' Vietnam, and the reasons why, to this day, the war in Afghanistan still drags on despite the victory that the Mujahideen were denied when the Soviets withdrew.