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Panjshir offensives
Who am I to say that? I'll tell you: I wrote that whole article and collated all the necessary sources so I can speak with a little more authority of this than some random user whose contributions are limited to messing with the infobox to satisfy some nationalistic POV. "In the end" refers both to the tactical and the strategic outcome, and neither was favourable to the Soviets. At the time, the Soviet military presented the battles as victories because they briefly occupied certain positions, but that is certainly not a measure of success in counterinsurgency, or even in conventional warfare. According to this reasoning, Napoleon must have won the Russian campaign, because he captured Moscow! The net result of the panjshir battles was:
- The Soviets did not destroy the resistance forces, nor even inflict significant casualties
- They did not pacify the area, or bring it under government control
- In the end they vacated the area, leaving it completely under insurgent control
In short, the Panjshir operations achieved nothing, and by all accounts they cost the Soviets severe losses. So, pray explain according to what scale of military success you judge them to have been victories? Raoulduke47 (talk) 22:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)