President Trump must understand that epithets and exaggeration undermine America’s greatest weapon: our credibility.
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen ...
The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers.
Instead, these birds were used to terrorize Afghan villagers in the failed Soviet-Afghan War that defined the 1980s. The Mi-24 Hind was developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was first ...