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Notes
1. Robinson, “Soviet Hearts-and-Minds Operations in Afghanistan,” 1–22.
2. MacGinty, “Warlords and the Liberal Peace,” 579.
3. Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Forty-One Years in India: Kindle Edition, location 5181.
4. For a broader discussion of this point (and other key aspects of Soviet strategy), see Tribal Analysis Center, Learning from History. Also, Doohovskoy, “Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Soviet Afghan War Revisited,” 35–42.