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Summary: Modern Soviet Combat tactics
Review: This work shows how the Soviet army responded to the guerilla tactics used by their enemies by analyzing a number of different combat situations. These situation cover both offensive and defensive operations. This work does not try to expalin the Afghan War on a strategic level, but deals exclusively with the tactical realm. Each vignette contains a map of usually sufficient detail to enable the reader to following the descriptions contained in the text.The editor does a good job at translating Soviet-specific terms into the US/NATO vernacular. The reader should pay paticular attention to the Soviet style map graphics - they are superior to US style graphics especially dealing the fluidity of a paticular action.
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Summary: The Bear Went over the Mountain
Review: 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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