Previous: Vietnam War Concurrent: Cold War Next: U.S. Invasion of Panama Soviet War in Afghanistan Conflict: Cold War Date: December 24, 1979 - February 15, 1989 Place: Afghanistan Outcome: Withdraw of Soviet forces from Afghanistan Combatants Mujahideen Supported by: United States United Kingdom People's Republic of China Afghanistan Supported by: Soviet Union Commanders Mullah Rahmaan President Ronald Reagan Capt. Alex Mason Jason Hudson Sgt. Frank Woods Tian Zhao Leonid Brezhnev Mikhail Gorbachev Lev Kravchenko† Sgt. Nikolai Babrak Karmal Mohammad Najibullah Strength Mujahideen Soviet Armed Forces Soviet Army Spetsnaz Soviet Air Force Afghan National Army Casualties 75,000-90,000 14,453 (Soviet) 18,000 (Afghan)

The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a Cold War conflict that occured from 1979 - 1989. It is featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops II in the campaign mission Old Wounds.

TriviaEdit

• This was also a war that Nikolai from the Modern Warfare series fought in. This can be derived from him saying, "It looks like when I was in Afghanistan with the Soviets!" in "The Enemy of My Enemy".