The Battle for Afghanistan: The Soviets Versus the Majahideen During the 1980s

Afg is full of tribes and tribal leaders can only control them author could have mentioned feudal system among them eloberatly

Honest and candid review by someone in-house. Insider analysis of Afghan psyche , piece by piece how nighty soviet union crumbles in Afghanistan.

This is a very good reference to the CIA involvement in Afghanistan.

I like to read the opposite veiws of a war than the stuff that we are given to believe. by our own gov, press media. . enjoyed this book.

Book is rather detailed and dreary with few illustrations. Would I recommend it? no

The author was in a leading position during the Afghan-Soviet war. It details why the Soviet Union lost the war and how the Mujahideen's victory was squandered thereafter. Since the book is written from the inside of the Pakistani security services it provides a different view than we are accustomed to. It also shows why the Afghan war, the US and its allies is currently engaged in, is not winnable in the traditional military sense and why our planners in the Pentagon should take the lessons which the Soviets learned the hard way to heart. Brigadier Yousaf, provides details of battle plans, does not mince words and also points to the inadequacies of the CIA's approach to the war. The fact that 85,000 Soviet troops on the ground could not control the country leads one to wonder why a smaller force should be able to do it now. Since Afghans are some of the most fiercely independent people in the world a rethinking of our strategy in that country is urgently required and this book can be of great help in this respect.

Surprisingly well written (or, i guess, translated and edited) recount with lots of logistical and political details on Afghan war during second part of 80s.Sadly, maps included in given kindle version are pretty much unreadable due to poor scans.