Afghanistan didn't work for them because they couldn't hold territory after initially capturing it. I think there was one valley they had to conquer 3 times. Ea

Afghanistan didn't work for them because they couldn't hold territory after initially capturing it. I think there was one valley they had to conquer 3 times. Each time ended in what looked like a decisive victory but the moment they tried to draw down troops the Mujahideen would come flooding back out of the mountains and the USSR was back to square one.