Word: dudayev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...
...forces from the kgb and the gru, the military intelligence service, assisted by several paratroop battalions, managed to take Kabul, the capital, in one day with minimal losses. In the Chechnya war, our commanders seemed to be totally oblivious of this lesson when they went after Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev. They should have used elite troops; instead, they went in with raw recruits. In Afghanistan conscripts were never sent directly to the front: they had to undergo two months of preparation at special training camps located in regions of the Soviet Union where climate and terrain closely resembled the conditions...
...Dudayev spoke from 2:20 p.m. to 3:10 p.m. with the roughly 40 under-graduates, graduates and research students who came to the seminar...
...Russian Research Center, which is housed in Coolidge Hall, initially had arranged to have Dudayev's emissary, Aslamebek Kadiev, speak at the seminar which discussed the war from Chechnya's point of view. The general later promised to call in the middle of the session...
...Dudayev, who called with a satellite phone from an unidentified location, not only informed the students, but also received some news...