Britain's previous ambassador to Afghanistan left Kabul when Soviet forces invaded in 1979.
Georgy Zhukov led the Soviet forces in all the decisive battles that decided the outcome of the war on the Eastern Front.
They like to point out, too, that America has abandoned them before, cutting aid and military support when Soviet forces left Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s.
The Safy Mountain range is of strategic importance because it overlooks the Bagram air base, which was built by Soviet forces during the Soviet Union's war with Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Such Deutsche mark-based payments and credits would pay for continued Soviet oil and gas deliveries to East Germany, all trade and service obligations and the stationing of Soviet forces on German soil.
It is noteworthy that just today, U.S. officials have indicated that Soviet forces in East Germany have been placed in a higher state of readiness, but aver that this action appears to be of a defensive character.
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The Soviet armed forces' appetite for sophisticated "dual-use" technology vastly exceeds Moscow's ability to pay for it.
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The United States has long believed that it was desirable for both the U.S. and Soviet strategic forces to be substantially comprised of slow-flying manned penetrating bombers.
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After all, the Soviet strategic rocket forces are responsible for space launch operations.
His father, arrested by the Nazis during the war as an opponent of Hitler, somehow secretly heard on the BBC where the final demarcation between Soviet and Western forces would be - the line of what would become the Iron Curtain.
Arguably, had their advice concerning relations with the Soviet Union, reducing American forces in Europe, canceling military modernization programs, arms control, etc. been heeded at the time, the outcome might well have been different.
Clashes have broken out in the former Soviet republic of Georgia between government forces and paramilitaries loyal to a local warlord.
Russia's foreign minister reacted angrily to an announcement from Washington that American troops would be sent to train anti-terrorist forces in ex-Soviet Georgia .
In 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit.
National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft even suggested that such a commitment of forces could even entitle the Soviet Union to seek cash contributions from the Saudis -- just as Washington did the week before.
U.S.-Soviet relationship and lock in reductions in military forces.
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Russian forces pushed troops from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia out of a key town 50 miles from the Georgian capital Monday, prompting a plea from President Bush that Russia accept Georgia's move toward a peace agreement.
But Kosovo's few Serb leaders with the nerve to stay behind now seem likely to spurn the council, largely because western forces (plus a small number from Russia and the former Soviet Union) seem unable, so far, to stem a steady wave of revenge killings by Albanians.
GLCM's were eventually scrapped as part of the terms of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
First, as a maritime power we and our allies and friends are critically dependent on naval forces to a measure far beyond that of a land-power like the Soviet Union.
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Within a few years of defeating Germany and Japan, growing antagonism between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Cold War resurrected the strategic requirement that U.S. forces be able to fight multiple, geographically dispersed, and possibly simultaneous conflicts.
The relationship between this group and the ISI goes back to the Soviet war, when the Pakistanis channelled weapons to its patriarch, Jalaludin Haqqani, who commanded forces in the border area around Tora Bora.
This is occurring despite the recommendations of U.S. negotiators against preparing accords on strategic forces, conventional forces in Europe and chemical weapons under an artificial deadline and mounting evidence that the Soviet military is hardening its position in the arms talks to achieve tactical advantages under these circumstances.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
India can arm two types of aircraft to do this: the MiG-27 Flogger, which was made by the old Soviet Union, and the Jaguar, which was used in a nuclear role by the British and French air forces.
It seems far more likely that the Pentagon will keep its own counsel, mixing and matching from the vast variety of forces at its own disposal, and taking assistance from allies, ranging from Afghan tribesmen to former Soviet satellites, as and when required.
As Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union move their economies away from the inefficient autarky of the Soviet era towards a more efficient integration with the world economy, considerations of trade and investment will prevail over other forces.
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