The Bear Went Over the Mountain · Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

- Authors
- Grau, Lester W.
- Publisher
- Tales End Press
- Tags
- counter-insurgency , guerrilla warfare , war , russian army , soviet union , afghanistan , history , soviet-afghan war , military history
- ISBN
- 9781623580506
- Date
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.72 MB
- Lang
- en
This collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerillas. It is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan war, but snapshots of combat as seen by young platoon leaders, company commanders, battalion commanders and military advisers.