This is why the Kabul army dissolved

Today the world is wondering about the speed of the Taliban advance, which does not seem to encounter resistance. And one wonders: did America and the whole of NATO do worse than the Soviet Union? After the retreat of the Red Army, government troops stood up to the fundamentalist mujahideen for nearly three years. When in 1989 the guerrillas tried to conquer the first big city, Jalalabad, it was repulsed with heavy losses: the army and air force – trained by the Russians but composed only of Afghans – deployed effective tactics, using even hundreds of Scud missiles. .