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Lester W. Grau

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.

(From The Bear Went Over the Mountain)

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  • Cover of: The Bear went over the mountain: Soviet combat tactics in Afghanistan

    Cover of edition bearwentovermoun00grau First published in 1996 — 20 editions
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Guerrilla warfare, History, Counter-insurgency, Military History, Military policy, 1917 - 1991 - history, Afghan War, 2001-, Afghan war, 2001-2021, Afghani politics, Afghanistan, Afghanistan - history, Afghanistan - military conflicts, Afghanistan, history, soviet occupation, 1979-1989, Armed Forces, Campaigns, Defenses, Operation Anaconda, 2002, Russian army, Soviet Union, Soviet history - 1964-1991, Soviet union, history, military, Soviet union, military policy, Soviet-Afghan War, Soviet-Afghan war, Tactics

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Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Russia (Federation)

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Soviet occupation, 1979-1989, 20th century, 1979-1989, Soviet occupation

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