Thread: Parliament to be recalled re: Taliban in Afghanistan
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Old 23-08-2021, 12:53   #188
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Re: Parliament to be recalled re: Taliban in Afghanistan
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss View Post
Just proves people do not learn from past mistakes. Vietnam was the same. Cease Fire VC regroup and attack rinse and repeat then quit, this has just been spread over more years.

Crazy to think an allied force with their hands tied with rules of combat would ever do better than a Soviet force with free reign
Don't know how much free reign the Soviet forces had or how experienced they were.

Apparently lots of Soviet teenager soldiers were sent there on their first mission. The deaths of relatively young soldiers there contributed to the unpopularity of the USSR amongst its peoples and helped its 1989 demise.
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