Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

A friend loaned this book to me a few years ago as suggested reading. He let me know tonight that he was looking for some links for someone and had come across the book in PDF format and I think it is something worth posting about it and to be as concise as possible regarding a summation, I quote Amazon's product description.

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.

However, the review comments are much better and strongly urge you to go and read them and decide then if it is worth having (all 13.2MB's) in, at the very least, your digital library.

Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

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