In the words of one of the most redoubtable Western analysts of the Cold War, the Soviet-Afghan War became a “death-knell” for the Soviet Union, “signaling its international isolation, its leadership’s inconsistency and fragmentation, and its public’s growing disbelief in the purpose and direction of Soviet rule.”1 It is therefore not surprising that the various aspects of the Soviet-Afghan War, which lasted almost a decade—from December 1979 to February 1989—have engendered a fair amount of analysis.
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