Mark Galeotti: Storm-333 | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781472841872 | Storm-333 | KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979

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Beschreibung

Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely symbolic show of force, yet which quickly devolved into a gritty ten-year counter-insurgency that Moscow was never able to win. Nonetheless, Storm-333 was a striking success, and despite initial concerns that it would be an impossible achievement, it saw a relative handful of Soviet special forces drawn from the KGB and the military seize the heavily defended presidential palace, neutralise the city's communications and defences, and open Kabul to occupation. The lessons learned then are still valid today, and have been incorporated into modern Russian military practice, visible most recently in the seizure of Crimea in 2014.

Written by a recognised expert on the Soviet security forces, drawing extensively on Russian sources, and fully illustrated with commissioned artwork, this is the most detailed and compelling study of this fascinating operation available in English.

Über den Autor

Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business, a prolific author and frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy and is an Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies as well as holding fellowships with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Visiting Professor at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is the author of over 25 books including Putin's Wars (Osprey Publishing, 2022) and Forged in War (Osprey Publishing, 2024).

Zusammenfassung

Mark Galeotti is a well-known and respected expert on modern Russian forces, and this promises to be the most authoritative account of the operation in print.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Origins
Initial Strategy
The Plan
The Raid
Analysis
Further Reading
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472841872
ISBN-10:	1472841875
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Galeotti, Mark
Illustrator:	Stacey, Mark Shumate, Johnny
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	243 x 182 x 6 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Galeotti
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.03.2021
Gewicht:	0,262 kg