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Mohammed Yakub, the Glossary

Mohammed Yaqub (? – 27 December 1979) was a lieutenant colonel in the Afghan Army, the Chief of General Staff of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1 April 1979, until his death during the Tajbeg Palace assault on 27 December 1979, and a “first-class” paratrooper of the 444th Commando Battalion.^[1]

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20th-century Afghan military personnel

Afghan Army

The Islamic National Army, also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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ANA Special Operations Command

The Afghan National Army Special Operations Command was a special forces formation of the Afghan National Army, established in 2011.

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Chief of General Staff (Afghanistan)

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (د افغانستان د ملي اردو لوی درستیز) is the highest-ranking military officer in the military of Afghanistan (currently the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces), who is responsible for maintaining the operational command of the military.

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Colonel general

Colonel general is a military rank used in some armies.

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992.

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Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (حفيظ الله امين; 1 August 192927 December 1979) was an Afghan communist head of state, who served in that position for a little over three months, from September 1979 until his assassination.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Khalq

Khalq (خلق) was a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)

The Ministry of Defense (وزارت دفاع ملی,, د ملي دفاع وزارت) is the cabinet ministry of Afghanistan responsible for overseeing the military of Afghanistan (currently the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces).

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Mohammad Aslam Watanjar

Mohammad Aslam Watanjar (محمداسلموطنجار, 1946 – November 2000) was an Afghan military officer and politician.

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Mohammad Daoud Khan

Mohammad Daoud Khan (محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18July 190928April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in the Saur Revolution.

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National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan

National Revolutionary Party (Pashto: حزب اِنقلاب ملی, Hezb Enqilab Mili) was a political party in the Republic of Afghanistan.

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Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki (14 July 1917 – 9 October 1979) was an Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer.

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Paratrooper

A paratrooper or military parachutist is a soldier trained to conduct military operations by parachuting directly into an area of operations, usually as part of a large airborne forces unit.

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Parcham

Parcham (Pashto and Dari: پرچم) was the more moderate socialist faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) led by Afghan communist politician Babrak Karmal.

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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School

The General V.F. Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Command School (RGVVDKU) is a military educational institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense, situated in Ryazan, about southeast of Moscow.

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Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution (د ثور انقلاب; إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (rtl) by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and overthrew Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and established an autocratic one-party system in the country.

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Soviet Airborne Forces

The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Tajbeg Palace

Tajbeg Palace (د تاج بېګ ماڼۍ; قصر تاج بيگ; Palace of the Large Crown), also inaccurately called the Queen's Palace, is one of the palaces in the popular Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Tajbeg Palace assault

The Tajbeg Palace assault, known by the military codename Operation Storm-333 (Шторм-333), was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Yakub