After Gorbachev took office, he immediately began his policies to save the Soviet Union and make it great again. His reforms involved all aspects of the country, including economy, politics, society, etc.
Of course, there are also military aspects. While the Soviet army has not been affected at this moment, the Soviet army in Afghanistan has really felt a lot of changes.
Although the treatment of soldiers has remained unchanged, the resources that the top management can mobilize have been restricted. In other words, the 40th Group Army can no longer launch large-scale battles as before, the Air Force can no longer launch bombings at will, and the Army can no longer launch bombings at will. Large-scale clearing campaigns could no longer be launched, and even conventional artillery strikes were restricted.
The only ones who have not been greatly affected so far are the Soviet helicopter pilots in Afghanistan. Not only have they not been affected, they have been strengthened even more.
The helicopter force has received more Mi-24 armed helicopters, because those big guys like Mi-8 are simply not enough in the face of the increasing number of anti-aircraft missiles in the hands of Afghan guerrillas, not just the Stinger, but even the French The Mistral appeared inexplicably on the battlefield in Afghanistan, which confused the French.
It was later discovered that those Mistral missiles were resold internally by the Chadian army on the arms market, and then bought by the Pakistanis and given to Afghanistan. There was even a batch of Soviet-aided arms from Libya in them.
This matter has nothing to do with Shadow Company. After all, the international arms market is so big, and Shadow Company is only one of the participants. However, when it was discovered that the Afghan guerrillas had obtained Soviet aid arms from Libya and began to beat the Soviets, Shepard Deya could only lament that the boomerang thing was really powerful.
The reason why the Soviets vigorously strengthened their helicopter forces is also very simple. The complex terrain of Afghanistan made it difficult for the Soviet army to supply supplies. When ordinary supply convoys went out, they were either mined by guerrillas or bombed by rocket launchers. Even the Afghans had learned to teach themselves without a teacher. Using self-destruction tactics, knowing that the Soviets would be wary of pedestrians on the road, some guerrillas would tie bombs to
on the sheep, and then let the sheep stay on the road, so the Soviets had to get out of the car to drive the sheep away, and then detonated the bomb.
However, guerrillas don't do this kind of thing much, because sheep are also valuable wealth to Afghans. Killing a sheep is equivalent to starving to death for a whole family.
In order to ensure the smooth flow of transportation lines, the Soviet Union's 40th Group Army in Afghanistan often launched some offensives to expel local guerrilla forces.
But now, due to lack of resource support, this method of opening up transportation lines to alleviate temporary urgent needs regardless of cost is no longer feasible. The Soviet army can only rely on air supplies.
Fortunately, the Soviet Union during this period had an extremely large strategic transportation force, so there was no need to worry about transportation volume.
But not all airports can allow transport planes to land safely. In the big cities controlled by the Soviet Union, the area around the airport is safe, but in the frontline areas, it is not necessarily the case. Thanks to the teachings of Shadow Company, that The guerrillas under the control of men are now obsessed with targeting the Soviets' pain points. For example, when a transport plane is landing at a front-line airport, they bomb the airport runway with rocket launchers and lock the transport plane with anti-aircraft missiles. When these things are happening at the same time , and some guerrillas tried to capture a few lone Soviet soldiers alive.
Generally, it would be very miserable for Soviet soldiers to fall into the hands of Afghans, but under the words and deeds of Shadow Company, the members of the Jihadist Student Organization already know that these guys may often be worth tens of thousands of bullets or hundreds of kilograms of rice noodles, so they do not They would torture the prisoners, but they would be forward-looking and ask the prisoners to record a video to prove that they were alive, and then send the film to the Soviets for viewing.
If the Soviets refused to exchange prisoners, it would be simple. The guerrillas would tell them that they would send the news to the soldiers' families in the Soviet Union through Western countries. The Afghans exchanged sneakily.
But fortunately, that man knew that taking advantage of it would only last long if you kept your voice low. Therefore, the guerrillas in other areas have not learned this trick, and the ones stationed in Afghanistan have not learned this trick yet.
The Soviet army also issued bans many times, requiring soldiers not to be left alone. Even if they went out to the toilet at night to defecate, they must go hand in hand with their comrades and come back hand in hand.
It can be said that if the previous situation in Afghanistan was a strategic offensive by the Soviet army and a strategic defense by the Afghans, then now the two sides have entered a strategic stalemate stage.
Shadow Company, as a battlefield hyena who has milk and is a mother, naturally accepted the US dollar employment from Washington and returned to Afghanistan.
In fact, there is another reason because the Libyans discovered that Shadow Company had stolen oil in Libya. Although Gaddafi himself did not care about the oil, after all, those things were only resold for tens of millions of dollars. He was sitting in his office. After waiting a few weeks, his own oil company could dig out the money, but this kind of petty theft made the other party very angry.
I can give it, but you can't rob it, but you not only rob it secretly, but also sell it on the market, saying that you can get Libyan oil cheaply and buy it quickly. This is your fault!
As a result, the PCs of Shadow Company, especially those who participated in the war and directly resold oil, were put on bounties by the Libyans ranging from one thousand to ten thousand.
Fortunately, Shepard is not such a shameless boss who betrays his subordinates. PCs will be forced to cover their faces or wear masks when moving. The few senior executives who do not need to cover their faces also keep a low profile. In addition, the identities of the PCs are kept confidential. The work has been done well, so no one is wanted under their real names yet.
But in order to prevent some bold guy from actually kidnapping PCs in exchange for bounties, Shepard still rotated the personnel.
All four units deployed in Africa were deployed to Pakistan to help old friends continue to train manpower.
The current PCs in Africa are newly recruited from all over the country. Putting these guys in Africa can be regarded as allowing some guys who have not experienced battles to adapt in advance to avoid any ptsd in the future!
You know, when Shadow Company was recruiting people, it was stated in the notes that people with easy PTSD were not allowed to enter.
