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CHAPTER 5<br />

MINE WARFARE<br />

Mine warfare is a favorite technique with <strong>the</strong> guerrilla. It is a relatively<br />

inexpensive way to attack personnel and vehicles. Most<br />

<strong>Mujahideen</strong> mines were anti-tank and anti-vehicular. When <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Mujahideen</strong> employed anti-personnel mines, <strong>the</strong>y prefered <strong>the</strong> direc -tional<br />

mine (similar to <strong>the</strong> U.S. claymore mine). Soviet mines were<br />

mostly anti-personnel. During <strong>the</strong> war, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Mujahideen</strong> were supplied<br />

with many types <strong>of</strong> foreign anti-tank mines Often, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Mujahideen</strong><br />

would stack three anti-tank mines on top <strong>of</strong> each o<strong>the</strong>r to guarantee a<br />

catastrophic kill: Many Afghans are inveterate tinkerers and <strong>the</strong>y<br />

preferred to make <strong>the</strong>ir own antitank mines from unexploded ordnance<br />

and o<strong>the</strong>r antitank mines.<br />

Asadabad<br />

alalabad<br />

Afghanistan<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Incidents

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