Abstract

The chapter looks at the Limited Contingent – its composition, size and living conditions. It looks at the senior command, the officer corps and the soldiery and the failed attempt to create an esprit de corps that would boost morale. It was foiled by the irrelevance of Soviet military tradition to conditions in the field; by the need to maintain a large portion of the army in remote outposts and security of communication routes and supplies; by the desperate living conditions – a hard climate; persistent hunger; the prevalence of disease; inadequate medical treatment; by frustration with the manifest pointlessness and hopelessness of the war; the elusiveness of the enemy; and by the constant and apparently inevitable friction with the local population that led to acts of cruelty and savagery.

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