President Trump must understand that epithets and exaggeration undermine America’s greatest weapon: our credibility.

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.

That’ll be like the Soviet-Afghan war on steroids. That guerilla war killed tens of thousands of Soviet troops, severely degraded the titan’s military and catalysed the 1991 breakup of the USSR.

More Russian soldiers are likely to have died seizing the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka than in the 10-year Soviet-Afghan war, ...

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 ...