Soviet Military Command

Or finally the pathetic letter the Soviet Military Command delivered to the head of the UN mission in Afghanistan on February 14, 1989, arguing just as the American military high command would do of our war effort that it was “not only unfair but even absurd to draw... parallels” between the Soviet Afghan disaster and the American war in Vietnam.

Tom Engelhardt: The Urge to Surge: Washington's 30-Year High Tom Engelhardt 2011