 | Douglas A. Borer - 1999 - Страниц: 290
...destructive. One needs only review the recently released casualty figures to underscore the persuasiveness of the problem. Soviet dead and missing in Afghanistan amounted to almost 15,000 troops, a modest per cent of the 642,000 Soviets who served during the ten-year war. Far more telling were the 469,685... | |
 | J. Boone Bartholomees - 2001 - Страниц: 295
...destructive. One needs only review the recently released casualty figures to underscore the persuasiveness of the problem. Soviet dead and missing in Afghanistan...percent of the 642,000 Soviets who served during the 10-year war. Far more telling were the 469,685 other casualties, fully 73 percent of the overall force,... | |
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... a microcosm for the internal weakness of the society as a whole. According to one study: The messages of doubt were military, political, ethnic, and social. In the end they were corrosive and destructive. One needs only review the recently released... 