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The resilience of poorly-armed Afghan mujahidin surprised sceptical foreign observers, many of whom had predicted a rapid victory for Soviet forces which enjoyed the advantage not only of weaponry, training and organisation but absolute control of the air. The answer undoubtedly lay in the courage, determination and self-sacrifice of the Afghan people as a whole, not only the guerrillas.
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See for example, Sandy Gall, Behind Russian Lines and Afghanistan: Agony of a Nation, (The Bodley Head, London, 1988).
Tariq Ali, Can Pakistan Survive? (Penguin, London, 1983).
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Hyman, A. (1992). Jihad and the Superpower Proxy War. In: Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21948-3_11
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