Abstract
In general, recent writings on the First Russo-Afghan War (1979–???) fall into the following major categories:
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Rationalizations for the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet writers and Soviet-line sympathizers. The war is currently being more fully covered in Soviet media.1
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Western specialists on Soviet affairs have written their own interpretations of what happened and why it happened.2
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A number of ‘instant’ experts, not only journalists, have arisen to meet the need for news. Accurate reporting has been hampered by the difficulties of access by non-Communists to cover the war from Kabul, for, unlike the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War, which were open wars, the conflict in Afghanistan is a closed war. Accurate accounts of what happens inside Afghanistan are difficult to obtain and verify, and even basic mistakes on geographic locations are printed and perpetuated by usually reliable journalists.3
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Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Soviet Policy Toward Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, (New York: Praeger, 1982)
Henry S. Bradsher, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1983)
Thomas T. Hammond, Red Flag Over Afghanistan (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984).
Louis Dupree, ‘Tainted news from Afghanistan’, New York Times, editorial page, 22 June 1984.
Hammond op. cit., p. 9–18, refers to three other twentieth-century Soviet ‘invasions’ (1925, 1929, 1930), but the 1925, 1930 simple border squabbles cannot be compared in magnitude with the Christmas Eve 1979 invasion. And, the Soviet assistance given to Ghulam Nabi Charkhi in his fight against Habibullah II (1929) has been overly exaggerated. Also, the Tsarist period Panjdeh Incident (30 March 1885) could conceiveably be put in the same category as Hammond’s mini-incidents. Louis Dupree, Afghanistan (Princeton University Press, 1980a), pp. 421–422, 424, 433–434).
Louis Dupree, ‘Toward representative government in Afghanistan’, Parts I and II, American Universities Field Staff Reports, Asia, Nos. 1, 14 (Hanover, NH, 1978).
Louis Dupree, ‘Militant Islam and Traditional Warfare in Islamic South Asia’, American Universities Field Staff Reports, Asia, No. 21 (Hanover, NH, 1980); Tribal Warfare in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chapter in Islam in Tribal Societies, A. Ahmed and D. Harts (eds) (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984) pp. 266–288; Afghan and British Military Tactics in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842), The Army Quarterly and Defense Journal 107 (2): 214–221, (Tavistock, Devon, 1977).
Richard F. Strand, The Evolution of Anti-Communist Resistance in Eastern Nuristan, chapter in Nazeet Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield (eds), Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: An Anthropological View (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 76–93.
Abraham F. Lowenthal, The Dominican Intervention (Harvard U. Press,/1972).
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Dupree, L. (1987). Cultural Determinants of the Afghan Resistance to the Saur Revolution of 1978. In: Malik, H. (eds) Soviet-American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08553-8_17
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