sorry but English is good in explaining so I copy pasted from wiki
but I agree with the paragraph
Soviet-Afghan War General
Nicholas Carter
Jaxon Cook
God what a clusterfuck.
Black Cat user above me has it right, imagine if they rooted out the islamists and got the people on their side.
Cooper Campbell
Do you think the Afghan war was just the soviets bombing everything?
rbth.com
they did, however unless you want them to go the holocaust route, they cannot eradicate it wholly. Not to mention that the majority of the issues began after the CIA created the mujaheds and artificially revived fundamentalism, supported by an equally fundamentalist Pakistan.
The Vietnam War: (1964–1975)
US losses only
KIA: 58,300+
WIA: 153,300+
Planes lost: 3632
Choppers lost: 5229
Tanks lost: 600+
Afghan-Soviet war: (1979–1989)
Soviet losses only
14,500+ KIA
53,750+ WIA
125 planes lost
300+ Choppers
147 tanks lost
Despite the USSR fighting a CIA-funded, trained and armed group based in Pakistan, and being in a country far larger than Vietnam for the same amount of time, they lost almost NO major battles if any, and had comparatively fewer casualties.
The main issue, was that the USSR acted on a principle of trying to respect the international conventions, such as instructing its pilots to never directly engage aggressive actions of the Pakistani Airforce, and rarely venturing past the Afghan border after the terrorists. They also were trying to rebuild Afghanistan, not just destroy the terrorists. They were close to winning despite the issues, and had Gorbachev not pussied out, they likely would have eradicated the shit-hole fundamentalism gripping Afghanistan. Instead it is now completely in the hands of the Taliban, and only defacto controlled by the US vassal government in power.
Jacob Rodriguez
Neither did the Americans in Vietnam.
That's literally what burgers say about Vietnam. The problem with insurgencies isn't winning or losing militarily, its the fact that unless you can win the support of the people there you will never overcome the insurgency. If you cant overcome them then eventually you will lose a war of attrition. It's pretty hard to earn popular support (especially in a country as fiercely independent as Afghanistan) when you are seen as a foreign invader bringing death and destruction on the local people, which will be inevitable since all wars cause collateral damage and civilian deaths. It was a terrible policy decision that Brezhnev should have been able to foresee.
Xavier Butler
Your argument si just another "muh Soviet Vietnam" except that while the Vietnamese hated the USA(South or North), the afghans largely liked the soviets. Many including ex-Mujaheds regret the results of the soviets leaving.
Jaxson Ortiz
In other words, in Vietnam the USA invaded a country to remove a system (communism) that was popular among the people. In afghanistan the USSR entered to assist the Afghani socialist government against CIA-trained terrorists who were a minority in the country. It's like the contras in South America.
Dominic Evans
Are their mag pouches obscenely large or is mine just tiny?
Justin Gomez
>Are their mag pouches obscenely large or is mine just tiny?
scnr
Elijah Ortiz
If they were popular they wouldn’t have lost.
Levi Watson
t. Mao
Geurilla forces literally cannot function without popular support.