Report of the Afghanistan mines survey / Mines Advisory Group.

Cover title.

Spiral bound.

“Mines Advisory Group”—at head of title.

“February 1991”.

Includes bibliographical references.

“Landmines were developed in between the tow world wars as a military response to tanks. In the same way that the refinement of the internal combustion engine had fostered the tank as a counter to the stalemate of trench warfare, so the invention of TNT, a powerful but stable explosive, allowed for the development of the anti-tank pressure mine. These fairly primitive devices were used in enormous quantities during World War II but were soon found to have one major weakness – they could be easily removed bye the enemy and either destroyed or redeployed against friendly tank forces. Thus were developed the first anti-personnel mines, to protect anti-tank mines. It did not take long for military scientists to recognize the potential of these new devices as effective offensive weapons in their own right, by the end of hostilities in Europe this genre of weapon had advanced to include fairly complex pressure-initiated bounding devices with effective killing ranges up to 25 metres”—(p. 3).