Observations of a Radar Soldier

[daferg]

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Have you read Lester Grau's "The Bear went over the Mountain"? It's a good read on exactly what you're looking for. There's also another Grau book "The Soviet-Afghan War" which is good too.

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I could not remember the name of that book! Thank you very much.

[Suhiir]

During the period from the end of Vietnam to the fall of the Iron Curtain the USMC view of the Soviet military was :

They will follow their orders regardless of consequences or common sense, because if they don't they'll get a bullet in the head from the closest zampolit/KGB officer.

Destroy the command structure or communications links and you're left with essentially a mindless horde to fight, they'll carry out the last orders they received then sit on their arse waiting for new ones.

You can pretty much count on then to follow set piece battle plans, disrupt even one part of the "plan" and watch the whole thing fall apart.

Russians are NOT stupid, but Soviet Doctrine is mindless.

Soviet junior NCO's (corporals and sergeants) have basically zero experience and initiative, officers do ALL the thinking.