Mountain warfare and other lofty problems : foreign ideas on high-altitude combat /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grau, Lester W. (Editor), Bartles, Charles K. (Editor)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : Foreign Military Studies Office, 2011.
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Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo106731
Table of Contents:
  • Mountain Combat. Ground combat at high altitudes / Lester W. Grau and Hernán Vázques
  • Mountain warfare: the need for specialized training / Muhammad Asim Malik
  • Small Unit. Forbidden cross-border vendetta: Spetsnaz strike into Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan War / Lester W. Grau and Ali Ahmad Jalali
  • Small secrets of great mountains / Lester W. Grau, based on the work of Ikram Nazarov
  • Flanking detachment in the mountains: a Soviet experience / Lester W. Grau and V.A. Selivanov
  • Cave warfare / Ikram Karimov
  • Large Unit. The campaign for the caves: the battles for Zhawar in the Soviet-Afghan War / Lester W. Grau and Ali Ahmad Jalali
  • Reconnaissance. Mountain reconnaissance Russian style / Lester W. Grau, based on the work of Michael Panov
  • Artillery. Moving artillery forward: a concept for the fight in Afghanistan / Joseph A. Jackson
  • ^Small Arms Fire. The right way to shoot: how to select firing positions and firing ready positions in mountainous conditions / Michael Panov
  • It is difficult
  • but possible and necessary
  • to master the skills and techniques of shooting in mountains / Michael Panov
  • Shelter. So that making camp makes you stronger: organizing rest and overnight halts for personnel in the mountains / Michael Panov
  • Russian Army Training. Along slopes and tracks: training method for overcoming mountain obstacles / Michael Panov
  • Forward, up, and then down: how to use a rope to climb a steep mountain slope / Michael Panov
  • Don't let me down
  • belay: training method for negotiating mountain obstacles / Michael Panov
  • How to "tame" a river: getting across water obstacles in the mountains / Michael Panov
  • Train to win: organizing and conducting physical training for soldiers in the mountains / Michael Panov
  • ^Logistics. Hydro-meteorological support of military transport along mountain rivers / Vladimir Shiryayev
  • What a water transport company should be: the need for special supply delivery transport units in mountain areas / Vladimir Shiryayev
  • Communications. Mountain combat: hard to move, hard to shoot, even harder to communicate / Lester W. Grau and Jason Falivene
  • Medical Considerations. Medical implications of high altitude combat / Lester W. Grau and William A. Jorgensen
  • Aviation. Helicopter landings in the mountains / Lester W. Grau, Anthony Reed, and James W. Grau, based on the work of D.B. Zipir.