Talk:Battles of Zhawar

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[edit] Good articles, but...

Raoulduke47:

The Zhawar article is another fine start by you in chronicling the battles of the 1980s war. However, I do believe that it suffers from an unnecessary anti-Soviet bias, largely because of the sources you are using. The works of Grau and Youssaf tend to be partisan in favor of the mujahideen. In the future I would like to introduce you to some other sources on Zhawar, and perhaps we can agree to some ammendments to the article.

Kenmore 07:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, my primary source for writing this was an article based on mujahideen accounts of the battle, so it naturally leans towards their perspective. I think it is rather unfair to say Lester Grau is biased against the Soviets: he has also written books and articles in collaboration with Russian historians showing the Soviet view of this war. As for Youssaf, he is an officer of the ISI, and so he presents the Pakistani POV, that is not necessarily invalid. But by all means, introduce your sources!

Raoulduke47 20:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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