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	EASTERN EXPRESS 35124 KIT 1/35 Soviet Armored Vehicle BA-1 "Izhorskiy" Armor $49.99 Time Left: 29d 18h 24m
	1/285, BMP-3. Armored Fighting Vehicle, Soviet Union, Army, GHQ Other $6.99: $9.99 Bids: 0 Time Left: 5d 9h 6m
	1972 Moscow Armored Vehicles Soviet Union 55th Anniversary Parade Press Photo Other Contemporary Images $15.10 Best Offer Enabled Time Left: 28d 4h 58m
	Modern Soviet armor: Combat vehicles of the USSR and Wa Nonfiction $5.70 Time Left: 28d 2h 37m
	USSR Soviet Union Armoured vehicle 6A-64 Pin BADGE Communist emblem CCCP lapel Russia $6.99 Bids: 0 Time Left: 5d 0h 23m
	Armored Vehicle & Soviet Word "Recognition Training Cards", Army, Navy, Military Books $4.99: $7.50 Bids: 0 Time Left: 2d 3h 17m
	ICM 1/72 Soviet BTR-152S Armored Command Vehicle Cold War Russian BAGGED KIT Armor $4.99 Bids: 1 Time Left: 2d 0h 31m
	Soviet UR-77 Armored Mineclearing Vehicle 1/72 Armor $5.99 Time Left: 1d 17h 38m
	Eastern Express 35141 BA-10 Soviet Armored Vehicle/35 Scale Armor $13.99 Bids: 0 Time Left: 17h 24m
	USSR Soviet Union Armoured vehicle 6A-64 Pin BADGE Communist emblem CCCP lapel Russia $6.99 Time Left: 13d 20h 3m

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How did the geography & culture of Afghanistan help cause failure of the Soviet invasion?

Apr 17, 2009 by ♥ lady from mars ♫ | Posted in History

I'm theme an essay on why the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a failure to a great extent. Can you please tell me if my first paragraph on the geography and good breeding of Afghanistan is good? Critique is good & you can correct it if you really want to.

The unique geography and way of life of Afghanistan caused many difficulties for Soviet troops because it was not the type of battleground that they were used to. The country of Afghanistan is made up of virtually impassable mountains and desert terrain. It was extremely difficult for Soviet troops to get their heavy artillery over the mountains and through the brawler terrain. Their heavy equipment, such as battle tanks, could not stand the unfamiliar, unbearably hot weather. Thus, they moved very slowly and were inept. This gave Afghan soldiers an advantage because they were experts in their own terrain. It was very easy for Afghan soldiers to pick up the unimpaired of Soviet soldiers that were able to surpass the mountains. The Soviet war policy was self-deprecating because it stressed centralized frontal attacks with burly units. Large units of soldiers were heard very clearly by the enemy when advancing on the rough deposit. Soviet Soldiers had even more of a disadvantage since they were trained to operate inside of their armored vehicles, and simply weren’t taught to fight exterior of the vehicles. This was extremely inconvenient in Afghanistan since the roads were not paved, and vehicles could barely navigate anywhere. The Afghan soldiers were badly off drivers when presented with the unfamiliar demographics of Afghanistan. Unlike the Soviets, the Afghan soldiers operated on foot and on horses. Horses could patently navigate throughout the treacherous hills, allowing Afghan troops to shoot down at the Soviets from unreachable locations. While on foot, Afghan soldiers would ratfink up in small groups on the Soviets while they were unprepared to defend themselves, with aid from infantry patrols. The Soviet army was not familiar with the use of infantry patrols, which were habituated to extensively with Afghan soldiers. Another, even more important tactic used by Afghan soldiers was guerilla warfare. Guerilla warfare stemmed from the corresponding exactly culture that exists in Afghanistan, as a result of the distinctive geography. Due to the physical divisions, the people are bloody provincial, with more loyalty to their specific clan or ethnic group than to a government or a country. They are also Muslims, and unusually religious and conservative. The major ethnic group is the Pashtun, but there are over ten minority groups. There is not one large gang of soldiers, but rather multiple, very loyal groups of soldiers. The Soviets brought in over one hundred thousand soldiers, secured Kabul very soon and installed Babrak Karmal as their puppet leader. However, they were met with fierce resistance when they ventured out of their strongholds into the countryside. Rebelliousness fighters, called Mujahedeen, saw the Christian or atheist Soviets controlling Afghanistan as a defilement of Islam as well as of their unwritten culture. Proclaiming a "jihad"(holy war), they gained the support of the Islamic faction. Using convenient guerilla tactics, Soviet soldiers would attack or raid quickly, then disappear into the mountains, causing incomparable destruction without pitched battles. Sometimes they would even use man-made tunnels to their advantage, rising out of the ground at the utmost unexpected times. There was no one strong-minded central stronghold from which resistance operated, which lead to loyal groups of soldiers that strongly defended all areas of their fatherland. The fighters used weapons that they could take from the Soviets or were given by the US. Decentralized and scattered around Afghanistan.

I commend you if you in point of fact read this whole thing. I didn't realize how long it was, worry.

It is catchy good but a bit too long to be one paragraph don't you think? It also depends what this first paragraph is about. If it is an essay your writing about then you really didn't steal the reader in much in the beginning. You just went straight to the point. Also the length of the paragraph really doesn't assist when finding the thesis. Although your first sentence pretty much sums up what your talking about. It is good, but try to make this into 2 paragraphs and be communicated up with an introductory paragraph because it seems you have the rest. I recommend you keep things like they are but start your essay off with the previously mentioned preliminary paragraph.

maybe this can help
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/introsentence.htm

Russian tactical air-to-ground weapons. Part 1

There is a handful of new tactical air-to-ground weapons was permitted for export during last two years in Russia. The most interesting in my opinion are 'Bazalt' PBK-500U (the essential JSOW analog) and MPK modules for broad spectrum of bombs (JDAM's functional analog).


Ahead of time in 2008 Bazalt have already demonstrated its RBK-500 cassette bombs, and blocks for air containers with splinter anti-personnel, definitive wall penetrating, cumulative, incendiary, and self-targeting elements SPBE and landmines.


PBK-U has SPBE-K sub-munition self-guided elements. As the 'Bazalt's peoples on MAKS-2009 explained me, the standard of guiding of that elements is just the same as 'Smerch's cassette anti-armor self-guided submunition elements have. They also said, that no uncommon modification of hardpoints needed, so any fighter jet, compatible with standard Russian munitions can use this new high gifted kit of weapon. They hit broad class of IR or radio-contrasting targets like armored vehicles, anti-aircraft systems, communication and charge centers. It can be monoblock too. The mass...

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Russian armored vehicles push Georgian police cars

Russian armored vehicles prod past Georgian police cars and move farther into Georgia in the Kaspi territory, near Igoeti.