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Nombre legal: Grau, Lester W.
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Ocupaciones: soldier
military analyst
military historian
Organizaciones: Foreign Military Studies Office
United States Army
Biografía breve: Lester W. Grau is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel. He served as an infantry officer and a Soviet Foreign Area Officer (FAO) throughout his career. He fought in Vietnam. In 1981, he completed one year of Russian language training at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California and then graduated from the U.S. Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1983. USARI was a two-year post-graduate school which dealt with all aspects of the then Soviet Union and all classes were taught in Russian. He has served in Moscow and traveled extensively in the former Warsaw Pact and former Soviet Union and continues that travel today. Since 1983, his work has exclusively been in the area of Russian and Soviet tactics and operations. As a combat infantryman, he finds it fascinating to compare and contrast how both the US and USSR fought and fight.

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Operation Anaconda: America's First Major Battle in… por Lester W. Grau

interesting and detailed

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norbert.book | Sep 26, 2021 |

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat… por Lester W. Grau

An excellent analysis of Soviet combat tactics, how they evolved, and what we can learn from them. A must for anyone interested in the Soviet era war for Afghanistan.

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spooks101 | Dec 4, 2018 |

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and… por Michael A. Gress

Sadly abit dry, to be expected though since its simply the direct translation of the Soviet High Commands write up of their participation and the break down of support structures during the Soviet Afghan War.

Will stick to authored books on the subject from here on out, high command reports are not my reading style in the slightest.

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Luftwaffe_Flak | otra reseña | Feb 7, 2014 |

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and… por Russian General Staff

Ironies abound with this book. There is the irony that the intervention was called a war of "fraternal socialism," when active fraternization was discouraged. There is the irony that the army that did as much as any to invent operational war found its whole range of standard operating procedures largely irrelevant. There is the irony that while the Russians had no shortage of relevant history to draw upon they refused to exploit it. Finally, at a time when there is no shortage of guerrilla fighting in the former Soviet Union, this book wound up being first published in the West due to a lack of money. Not that the Russians are alone in suffering from such ironies, but that's a different review.

As for what you actually get for the investment of time, you'll learn a great deal about the nuts-and-bolts conduct of the war from the Soviet perspective. Also useful is the commentary provided by the editors, particularly when they poke holes in the blind spots the Russians suffer from to this day about the whole adventure. Be warned though, this is a rather dry business.… (más)