posted on Aug, 26 2003 @ 05:45 PM
Compare this with the US attacks on Afghanistan. Both wars started as anti-terrorist operations and then escalated. Russia too thought that the
Chechens would give up and go home faced with overwhelming air superiority. The Chechen fighters had a motley collection of rusting tanks,
anti-aircraft guns, a few rockets and what they could capture - or more often buy - off Russian troops.
[Comments: This brings tears to my eyes: those poor Chechen farmers and householders armed with just tanks, rockets and anti-aircraft guns... ]
Maybe the best yet..