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Title	Mountain warfare and other lofty problems : foreign ideas on high-altitude combat /
Format	volume
Internet Access	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo106731
Published	Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : Foreign Military Studies Office, 2011.
Copyright Date	©2011.

SuDoc Number	D 110.2:M 86
Item Number	0359-C-11 (online)
Variation of Title	Foreign perspectives on high-altitude combat
Description	xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps (1 color)
Content Type	text
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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 --
	Contents: 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 --
	Contents: 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.
Metadata Source	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (DTIC, viewed July 31, 2018).
Subject - LC	Mountain warfare.
	Mountain warfare -- Case studies.
	Military mountaineering.
	Mountain troops.
	Military geography.
	Tactics.
Added Entry	Grau, Lester W., editor.
	Bartles, Charles K., editor.
Linking Field	Print version: Mountain warfare and other lofty problems (OCoLC)759126012
URL	Address at time of PURL creation http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a549118.pdf

Holdings	All items

OCLC Number	(OCoLC)1046677055
CGP Record Link	https://catalog.gpo.gov:443/F/?func=direct&doc_number=001065711&local_base=GPO01PUB
System Number	001065711

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