Russian envoy: Less is more in Afghan warfare
Posted: September 13, 2009 at 6:47 a.m.
Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan has some advice for top NATO commanders fighting the Taliban, based on the Soviet Union's bitter experience battling Islamist insurgents in the 1980s: Don't deploy more troops.
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