Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, Us and NATO Operations, 1979-2021

by Michael Napier

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.

US and British forces, strongly supported by air power, invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in response to the Al Qaida attacks on 9/11. What began as a small-scale operation of 2,500 troops with the limited objective of destroying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472859014
• ISBN13: 9781472859013
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.8"