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Bookmark or Share- Interview with Paul Daniels Designer of Bear Trap: The Soviet-Afghan ...Last year, GMT Games announced a very cool looking game designed by Paul Daniels covering the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979-1989 called Bear Trap.The game was described as a block wargame that used a similar system to what was used in the design for Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan.I was intrigued and was able to setup this interview through the Developer for the game Joe Dewhurst.
- Afghan prison commander jailed for 12 years for war crimes by Dutch ...In the 1980s, Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed government was fighting a guerrilla war against “Mujahideen” Islamist rebels at the time, following the Soviet invasion in 1979. The Netherlands has previously tried three high ranking officials of the Afghan military intelligence service for similar crimes in the same period in Afghanistan ...
- America's Afghan Playbook In Ukraine? Biden Arms Ukraine In Proxy War ...As the Ukrainian war moves east in Donbas, the US is sending arms worth $800 million to Ukraine. However, this time the US is sending offensive weapons tailored for the conventional war in Donbas. But the move has not gone down well with Russia which has protested US’ arms supply to Ukraine.
- Soviet–Afghan War - WikipediaThe Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The Mujahideen were variously backed primarily by the United ...
- Dutch court convicts Afghan man of involvement in war crimesTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A Dutch court on Thursday imposed a 12-year prison sentence on a 76-year-old Afghan man convicted of involvement in war crimes in a Kabul prison in the 1980s.
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