Old Soviet armored personnel carriers, tanks and artillery litter the countryside and cities of Afghanistan. Villagers in Khwaja Zaid in northern Afghanistan use two APCs along placed along the ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

An Afghan soldier hands a Soviet flag in solidarity to a departing soldier on the first day of the Soviet army's withdrawal from Afghanistan. May, 1988.Robert Nickelsberg A former Soviet soldier has ...