Mountain warfare and other lofty problems : foreign ideas on high-altitude combat /
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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.