Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan: Never Again?
Published Date: October 1, 1991
On September 26 and 27, the Center for Naval Analyses brought together Soviet and American experts on the war in Afghanistan to dicuss the lessons of the war, its effect on Soviet society, and its impact on Soviet policy in the Third World. Contrasting interests and views produced a wide-ranging discussion that mixed analysis with anecdotes from the Soviet participants' own experiences in Afghanistan. From this variety of perspectives emerged a few common themes; key among them was that the Soviet army was sent into a country about which it knew very little to fight a war for which it was unprepared.
