Another perspective of the war was “Afghanistan: The Bear Trap,” written by the former Pakistan ISI director of Afghanistan operations Mohammad Yousaf (with Mark Adkin). Charlie did much to be proud of, but though the great percentage of arms shipments were provided by the USA (and dropped off to the ISI in Karachi), the grunt work was still done by Afghanis. And, by the way, Wilson never did visit Afghanistan.
I’ll look for that book - thanks.
However I have to question your last comment - of course the grunt work was done by Afghanis - how could it be otherwise? No one was claiming that Charlie personally went up into the mountains and shot down Russian helicopters - right?
You obviously never read Crile’s book.