Download or read book The Bear, the Dragon, and the AK-47 written by Ethan Rosen and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet-Afghan War was a tangled conflict filled with legend, myth, and hard realities. In a span of ten years, international Jihadists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abdullah Azzam joined forces with Afghan fighters, the United States, and China to cripple the Soviet Union.In The Bear, the Dragon, and the Ak-47, geopolitical analyst Ethan Rosen takes you on a tour of the secret arms deals, geopolitical maneuvering, and ideological struggle that brought down the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. This book has emerged as a rare must-read page turner for anyone with interests in China, Afghanistan, radical Islam, or history as a whole.