documentation about russian tactics, fac, in chechen war

[Migow]

http://www.clingendael.nl/cscp/staff/mhaas/0301-CSRC-B59-RF-Airpower-in-Chechnya.pdf

 

reads it:thumbup:

[Mikoyan89]

+1 :thumbup:

[elchacal]

Good material!, thanks for share it!

[104th_Cobra]

Thank you.

Another publication about the Georgian 2008 conflict:

 

The Russian Military and the Georgia War: Lessons and Implications

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=1069

[DanKurt]

Thank you chaps. Very interesting reading.

[EvilBivol-1]

Not particularly focused on air operations, but a good overview of the conflict.

http://cast.ru/eng/news/?id=387

 

[Migow]

thx:thumbup:

[104th_Cobra]

Not about Chechenya, but probably interesting.

 

Air to Air Helicopter Combat (USMC Helicopters versus Russian HIND), 1979.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a071904.pdf

[104th_Cobra]

After digging on http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/, I fond some good documentation.

 

Here are some interesting links, thinking about future Combined Arms and other generic mission creation.

 

Heavy Opposing Force (OPFOR) Organization Guide.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304290.pdf

 

Heavy Opposing Force (OPFOR) Operational Art Handbook.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304379.pdf

 

Heavy Opposing Force (OPFOR) Tactical Handbook.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304332.pdf

 

Light Opposing Force (OPFOR) Organization Guide.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304690.pdf

 

Light Opposing Force (OPFOR) Operational Art Handbook.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304333.pdf

 

Light Opposing Force (OPFOR) Tactics Handbook.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304380.pdf

[104th_Cobra]

Of course, tactics are ever evolving.

That docs are for the 80's childs like me. Cold War nostalgia and the omnipresent Fulda Gap scenario.

 

Here one:

 

Generals Balck and Von Mellenthin on Tactics: Implications for NATO Military Doctrine

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a097704.pdf

 

Try also this link for a transcribed document.

http://wi.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/_portal/_content/professorships/systemScience/armedForces/Balck_Mellenthin.pdf

Edited November 18, 2011 by Xpto

[RIPTIDE]

Balck and Von Mellenthin can not be relied upon.

[104th_Cobra]

Balck and Von Mellenthin can not be relied upon.

 

Each commander can have a unique solution for a problem. But why do you say they can't be relied on?

 

I didn't read the text exhaustively, yet. So I don't have an opinion.

[RIPTIDE]

Each commander can have a unique solution for a problem. But why do you say they can't be relied on?

I've read their book, "Panzer battles". From cover to cover it came across as the bitter diary of a pair of Butthurt Nazi's who haven't yet accepted their defeat. Half of the account in the book Mellithin wasn't even involved in himself. lol It becomes clear because there is no great detail in it either.

[104th_Cobra]

I've read their book, "Panzer battles". From cover to cover it came across as the bitter diary of a pair of Butthurt Nazi's who haven't yet accepted their defeat. Half of the account in the book Mellithin wasn't even involved in himself. lol

 

OK :)

 

I'm remembering of read that same idea of them, and about this text, from someone else, somewhere when I was searching for the Order of Battle in the eighties, on GDR and East Europe.

[RIPTIDE]

OK :)

 

I'm remembering of read that same idea of them, and about this text, from someone else, somewhere when I was searching for the Order of Battle in the eighties, on GDR and East Europe.

The problem is that when he advised (BTW I hope that NATO did not take it seriously) he did so very much from a very narrow point of view at a time when he could get away from it: far too general, and way too simplistic. Noone on Red side in 1981 was going to corroborate or challenge his stories and ideas. Nowadays with Red WW2 records are now open there's a long line of NAZI myths been busted and a lot of memoirs are sliding from the Military History section to the Military Fiction section. Or somewhere in between.

[104th_Cobra]

By the way, do you or anyone have read anything about the documents (presumably) released by the Polish government, about the Soviet doctrine in conducting a possible West European war? I never found anything.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/1504008/World-War-Three-seen-through-Soviet-eyes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine

[104th_Cobra]

I've read their book, "Panzer battles". From cover to cover it came across as the bitter diary of a pair of Butthurt Nazi's who haven't yet accepted their defeat. Half of the account in the book Mellithin wasn't even involved in himself. lol It becomes clear because there is no great detail in it either.

 

I had forgotten that I had already read some parts of the text about the Fulda Gap region. I was reading until page 11, when Balck and Von Mellethin demonstrated their arrogance.

It's true that German commanders like Guderian and von Bock where highly ingenious and aggressive, but I think they were still in the prussian/teutonic over-confidence of the first Barbarossa engagements against weak equipments and immature Russian tactics, after Stalin's purges and failure of taking defensive measures when knowing about the plans for the ofensive.