Building Afghanistan's security forces in wartime: the Soviet experience

by Oliker, Olga

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Title Statements

Full title :Building Afghanistan's security forces in wartime : the Soviet experience / Olga Oliker.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):RAND
Place of Publication:Santa Monica, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xxv, 100 p. : : ill. ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0833051687, 9780833051684
oclc:ocn795886130
LC Classification:DS371.2
Dewey Decimal:958.104/5

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- The Limited Contingent -- Purpose and Research Approach -- ch. Two Historical Overview: 20th-century Security Aid to Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion -- 1920 -- 1978 -- The Saur Revolution -- Evencs Leading Up to the Soviet Invasion -- Afghan Security Forces on the Eve of the Soviet Invasion -- A Decision to Invade? -- ch. Three The Soviet Advisory Mission in the 1980s: Senior Leadership and Reporting Channels -- ch. Four Mol and KhAD Security Forces During the 1980s -- The Sarandoy -- KhAD -- ch. Five The Afghan Military -- The Military Advisory Mission -- Training of Afghan Military Personnel -- Aviation -- Border Forces -- ch. Six Militias and Other Forces -- Citizen Militias -- Border and Tribal Militias -- ch. Seven Afghan Security Forces Challenges and Responses -- Force Size and Desertion -- Efforts to Increase Numbers and Improve Morale -- Equipment -- Division of Labor Among Afghan Security Forces -- Transferring Control -- ch. Eight The Soviet Decision to Withdraw and the Legacy of Soviet Efforts to Build Afghan Security Forces -- Dissenting Voices -- Preparing to Leave -- The Withdrawal and After -- Evaluati…

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Afghanistan Afghānistān -- Histoire -- 1979-1989 (I… Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupa… Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 20t… Assistance militaire soviétique -- Afgh… History Internal security Internal security -- Afghanistan Military assistance, Soviet Military assistance, Soviet -- Afghanis… Military history Soviet Union Soviet Union -- History, Military Sûreté de l'État -- Afghānistān URSS -- Histoire militaire