Gorbachev's Endgame
With all the talk on the Afghanistan war, I always feel like the press here in the US is too flippant in its analysis of the differences today versus 20+ years ago when Russia was fighting the same war.
This article in the Moscow Times does a really good job of putting things in perspective.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/obama-tests-soviets-afghan-endgame...
