ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN’S LOSS IS UKRAINE’S GAIN When the United States wanted to purchase a fleet of helicopters for the Afghan government in the early 2010s, it chose the Mi-1

ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN’S LOSS IS UKRAINE’S GAIN When the United States wanted to purchase a fleet of helicopters for the Afghan government in the early 2010s, it chose the Mi-1

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ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN’S LOSS IS UKRAINE’S GAIN

When the United States wanted to purchase a fleet of helicopters for the Afghan government in the early 2010s, it chose the Mi-17 sold by a Russian state-owned arms exporter.

The decision infuriated U.S. lawmakers who felt the Pentagon should choose an American manufacturer. But the Defense Department stayed the course, saying the Russian helicopters were relatively inexpensive, functioned well in Afghanistan’s desert expanses and high altitudes, and Afghan pilots knew how to fly them.

A decade later, neither Congress nor the Kremlin could have anticipated that those helicopters would be used against Russian forces by way of arms transfers engineered by the United States in response to

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ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN’S LOSS IS UKRAINE’S GAIN When the United States wanted to purchase a fleet of helicopters for the Afghan government in the early 2010s, it chose the Mi-1

ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN’S LOSS IS UKRAINE’S GAIN When the United States wanted to purchase a fleet of helicopters for the Afghan government in the early 2010s, it chose the Mi-1

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