Naval War College Review
Abstract
What could be both more poignant and ludicrous than Commander Abdul Baqi Balots’s account of his survival of a firefight in which his closest friend was killed? “I saw a lot of Soviets coming at me and they were all firing (they put ten bullet holes through my baggy trousers).... Habib Noor told me that, un- less we crossed the stream to the north, we would not be able to engage the Soviets. . . . I ran across and jumped but landed directly into the stream. ‘Oh, Al- lah,’ I cried, ‘you have killed me without dignity.’ Then I made a big jump, I don’t know how since even a tank can’t clear it, but I did and got out of the stream.”
Recommended Citation
Green, William C.
(2003)
"The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in theSoviet-Afghan War,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 56:
No.
3, Article 15.
Available at:
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol56/iss3/15
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