05-12-2008, 04:53 PM
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From the Defense Technical Information Center...
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The saga begins in December 1979, with the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. decision less than two weeks later to begin supplying weapons to the anticommunist rebels.(7) President Jimmy Carter, who during his first three years in office had publicly denied that the Soviets harbored expansionist intentions,
despite mounting evidence to the contrary, simply had had enough. He signed a finding drafted by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, authorizing the covert supply of weapons through Pakistan to help the rebels "harass" Soviet forces - the greatest goal then believed attainable by the ragtag rebels.(9)
Finally, in March 1986, President Reagan authorized notification to Congress of his decision to provide Stingers to the Afghan rebels, necessitating a "memorandum of notification" modifying Jimmy Carter's six-year-old finding. With the Made-in-America threshold now crossed, the United States also began to supply an array of other sophisticated weapons for the rebels, including mine clearers, satellite-targetable mortars, "mule-mobile" rocket launchers, helicopter detectors, and even rudimentary cruise missiles.(82)
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Full 39 page PDF available here...
The Stinger Missile and US Intervention in Afghanistan
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