description: To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan &amp; to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command &amp; general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company &amp; battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces &amp; rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical casualties &amp; death, adaptation, &amp; survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency. Maps.
language: English
title: Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
titlecomplete: Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
genres: War, International Relations, Nonfiction, Military History, Russian History, Military Fiction, Russia, History
ratings_count: 663
places: Afghanistan
publisher: Diane Pub Co