Afghanistan, the Great Game RevisitedA single comprehensive guide to the issue of the Soviet invasion that explains what is happening and why, and what it means for the rest of the world. Readable and concise as well as authoritative, it includes information that has never before been made public in chapters contributed by an international roster of leading experts. A new chapter, 'The Geneva Accords-The Settlement and its Consequences, ' updates this bestseller in order to look at the recent developments in the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan both in theory and in fact |
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Today as always , they consider an advance into Central and Southwest Asia to be the primary means by which their landbased military might can be translated into tangible strategic gains , and the key to eventual success in Europe .
Today as always , they consider an advance into Central and Southwest Asia to be the primary means by which their landbased military might can be translated into tangible strategic gains , and the key to eventual success in Europe .
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As a result of this bitter legacy , the Great Russians have always perceived their struggle with the peoples of Central Asia in terms of " kto kogo " ( " who gets whom " ) , an all - or - nothing contest in which there can be no ...
As a result of this bitter legacy , the Great Russians have always perceived their struggle with the peoples of Central Asia in terms of " kto kogo " ( " who gets whom " ) , an all - or - nothing contest in which there can be no ...
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Surely it is within the Central Asian regions of Russia , and the Central Asian borders of Russia , that the real problems of the immediate future are going to develop . " --- Chester Wilmot , 1952 Afghanistan & The Muslims of the USSR ...
Surely it is within the Central Asian regions of Russia , and the Central Asian borders of Russia , that the real problems of the immediate future are going to develop . " --- Chester Wilmot , 1952 Afghanistan & The Muslims of the USSR ...
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| Otsikko | Afghanistan, the Great Game Revisited Focus on issues G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Toimittaja | Rosanne Klass |
| Painos | tarkistettu |
| Kustantaja | Freedom House, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0932088589, 9780932088581 |
| Pituus | 565 sivua |
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