Orders of Battle: April 3-10th 1986 Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) 7th Infantry Division (1st echelon) 8th Infantry Division (reserve) 25th Infantry Division (rear area) 14th Infantry Division (1st echelon) 666th Air Assault Commando 3rd Corps attachments = 54 infantry battalions (each bn = 300-400 men) 38th mixed DRA/Soviet Commando Brigade (530 men) Soviet 32 Mi-8s 6+ Mi-24s One SU-25 squadron Additional Forces For 11-19th Offensive DRA 1 reg/11th Infantry Division 1 reg/18th Infantry Division 21st Mech Inf brigade 203rd Infantry Spetnaz Bn 37th Commando Brigade Soviet 1st and 3rd Bns/345th Ind. Parachute Reg 4th and 5th Bns/56th air assault Brig 2nd Bn/191st Ind Mot Reg 45th Engineer Sapper Reg The Soviet Nadir Cataclysm at Zhawar Afghanistan: April 1986 Assault and Plan Cataclysm and Into the Hornet's Nest Consequences and a Second Attempt The End at Zhawar Orders of Battle Back to Table of Contents -- Against the Odds vol. 1 no. 3 Back to Against the Odds List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by LPS. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com * Buy this back issue or subscribe to Against the Odds direct from LPS.