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On Tue, 6/30/15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] USSR is gone but has doctrine changed wrt their successor/s?
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 10:56 PM

 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at
 10:39 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 This
 should have allowed access to dox that would have given a
 clearer picture of soviet military theory & intentions.
 So, it seems to me that there should now be a much clearer
 view of how the soviets really intended to prosecute such a
 conflict, as well as how they actually trained for it. There
 should also have been official  accts & analysis of the
 performance of their armed forces in the Afghan conflict.
 (as an aside, the stuff I've read has been all over the
 place in regard to this)
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 Hmmmm.
 Anyone have any figures on how many
 (if any) Soviet commanders were courtmartialed and
 imprisoned/executed for the Soviet fiasco in
 Afghanistan?
 Because
 it strike me that if it was known or even just suspected
 that this sort of outcome was possible, the percentage of
 Cover Your A** in such "accts & analysis"
 would likely be extraordinarily high. 
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 Richard Aiken
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Yeah, well that's probably why;
" (as an aside, the stuff I've read has been all over the place in regard to this)"

Still, it would be interesting to see what's there.

I once talked to an ex-active Green Beret who was currently in a reserve SF unit & he told me (c.1982) that an entire Soviet Armor/Mech brigade had been ambushed in some mountain pass in Afghanistan & virtually destroyed!

I have no idea how reliable the info was but the conversation was interesting nonetheless.

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