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The Bear Went Over the Mountain - Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (Hardcover, Anniversary edition)
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain - Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (Hardcover, Anniversary edition)
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This rare 10th anniversary edition (published in 2007) contains a
new introduction by expert Soviet historian David M. Glantz. In
addition all maps and graphics have been enhanced from the 1996
edition. "When the Soviet Union decided to invade Afghanistan, they
evaluated their chances for success upon their experiences in East
Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately for their
soldiers, as well as the people of Afghanistan, they ignored not
only the experiences of the British in the same region, but also
their own experience with the Basmachi resistance fighters in
Central Asia from 1918-1933. Consequently, in Afghanistan the
Soviet army found its tactics inadequate to meet the challenges
posed by the difficult terrain and the highly motivated mujahideen
freedom fighters. To capture the lessons their tactical leaders
learned in Afghanistan and to explain the change in tactics that
followed, the Frunze Military Academy compiled this book for their
command and general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are
valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical
training of platoon, company and battalion leaders of any nation
likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces
and rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest
features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat:
casualties and death, adaptation, and survival." (From the original
foreword by Hans Binnendijk, 1996)
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