NATO seeks Russia’s advice on Afghanistan withdrawal - report

[Lucille]

NATO seeks Russia’s advice on Afghanistan withdrawal - report

This made me laugh, especially since the Soviet-Afghan war contributed to its collapse.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is an adage for good reason.

NATO seeks Russia’s advice on Afghanistan withdrawal - report
http://rt.com/politics/counsel-afghanistan-report-withdrawal-112/

NATO commanders have unofficially asked the Russian Defense Ministry for information on the Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, in order to use the experience in the planned pull out from the country, a Russian newspaper has revealed.

NATO officials are interested in meeting the participants of the 1989 operation and also in a joint study of all related papers Kommersant daily wrote quoting unnamed sources in NATO.

The request was secret because the western military commanders did not want to draw parallels between the current coalition mission in Afghanistan and the Soviet stay in this country.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that there were no reasons to reject the request and most likely some documents will be provided.

NATO officials have said they had not used the Soviet Military experience when planning the withdrawal of the coalition troops from Afghanistan. Chairman of the Military Committee General Knud Bartels reiterated this stance during his visit to Moscow in December. But Kommersant suggested that the topic might be raised again at the international security conference in Moscow due in late May.

Nor did they consider the Soviet Military experience when planning the invasion and occupation.

 

[youngbuck]

Nor did they consider the Soviet Military experience when planning the invasion and occupation.

The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from it?

 

[gwax23]

If we wanted to learn something from the Russians it would of been never to go in in the first place.