the list expected guests of the christmas parties since nineteen seventy nine while the summit spetznaz who commands the most successful special forces operation. back on christmas night in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine ironically it was not only a smashing success for the joint. task force it was a tactical success for their opposite numbers back in langley christmas party was celebrated as the beginning of the new era of entrapping this soviet union in afghanistan as a way to revenge for the united states failure in vietnam and as the beginning of this so-called wilson war otherwise known as the anti soviet jihad and their proxy war against the soviet union in afghanistan conducted by the united states and their allies it's really symbolic that there wilson's war of the war part one and part two of the current u.s. counterinsurgency both of those stages up personalized by robert gates who used to be of the cia coordinator of the anti savia jihad in afghanistan and in this century presides over the pentagon in his new capacity merry christmas to you all who have been involved