Battalions ask for water. Poshtitsyn V.N.

Conducting hostilities in conditions of mining and deserted terrain is an extremely difficult task. Due to the difficulties with supply, sanitary losses of troops can much exceed combat. The troops are especially sensitive to a lack of water, the lack of which can even lead to the impossibility of fulfilling the combined combat mission.

about how the command of the limited contingent of the Soviet troops in Afghanistan coped with this problem is told in the book of the doctor of military sciences V. N. Strayitsyna.