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Special forces attempting to secure northern afghanistan with the afghan northern alliance. Armys 26th cavalry regiment charged an advanced guard of the 14th japanese army as it advanced from manila. Now a major motion picture from jerry bruckheimer in theaters everywhere. The horse soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of special forces soldiers who entered afghanistan immediately following september 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the taliban. Since then, many empires have risen from afghanistan, including the grecobactrians, kushans, hephthalites, saffarids, samanids, ghaznavids, ghurids, khaljis, timurids, mughals, hotakis and durranis.
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