By the time Jack crosses into the war zone in 1987, Afghanistan has swallowed Soviet troops for seven years, and Washington’s covert answer has grown into one of the CIA’s largest-ever arms programs, funneled through Pakistan’s intelligence service to mujahedin fighters, and championed in Congress by men like Texas Representative Charlie Wilson. By then the fighters are flying Stinger missiles, supplied since 1986, that have started to even the odds against Soviet gunships.
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