Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely symbolic show of force, yet which quickly devolved into a gritty ten-year counter-insurgency that Moscow was never able to win. Nonetheless, Storm-333 was a striking success, and despite initial concerns that it would be an impossible achievement, it saw a relative handful of Soviet special forces drawn from the KGB and the military seize the heavily Storm-333 - Mark Galeotti od authora Mark Galeotti a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Mark Galeotti |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
80 |
Rok vydání |
2021 |
Žánr |
naučná |
Nakladatelství |
Bloomsbury |