Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
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Editor: Lester W. Grau
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN: 0788146653
Number of pages: 223
Publisher: Diane Pub Co

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Book Review: The foremost discussion of Soviet tactics in Afghanistan
Summary: 5 Stars

"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a compilation of after action reports on tactical operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s, from the Soviet perspective. The descriptions of the action and Soviet after action observations are translated from Frunze Academy (Soviet War College) documents, and accompanied by commentary from the single most knowledgable American on the Soviet army, a man who spoke with leaders from both Russian and Afghan forces from some of these engagements.

No research of the Soviet-Afghan war is complete without careful consideration of the material here. As important as the documentation of the events of the war are the insights into the Soviet perceptions of the operations and the war, and the lessons that they drew from their experience.

This isn't really a book to sit down and read cover to cover, but rather to take a battle at a time and reflect on it before moving on to the next.

Brilliant work from a great man!

E. M. Van Court
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To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan & to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command & general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company & battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces & rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat: casualties & death, adaptation, & survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency. Maps.

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