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Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, activity in Eastern Ukraine, saber rattling regarding the Baltics, deployment to Syria, and more assertive behavior along its borders have peeked interest in the Russian Armed Forces. This increased interest has caused much speculation about their structure, capabilities, and future development. Interestingly, this speculation has created many different, and often contradictory narratives about these issues. At any given time, assessments of the Russian Armed Forces vary between the idea of an incompetent and corrupt conscript army manning ...

The United States Army has been involved in a mountain war for a decade. After all this time, mountain combat remains a stubbornly difficult mission and technology can offer only modest support to the infantry’s mission of closing with the enemy or the logistician’s mission of getting support forward. Training, equipment, weapons, tactics, and logistics all require significant adjustment for mountain combat. This book covers operations and tactics, artillery, and aviation support, reconnaissance, communications, training, and logistics. It demonstrates that the key to enhancing ...

The Yellow Book 2018 GAO-18-568G The professional standards presented in this 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards (known as the Yellow Book) provide a framework for performing high-quality audit work with competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence to provide accountability and to help improve government operations and services. These standards, commonly referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), provide the foundation for government auditors to lead by example in the areas of independence, transparency, accountability, and quality through the ...

The Bear Went Over The Mountain was written by Soviet officers who had served in Afghanistan and returned for the extensive Command and Staff course at the Frunze Combined Arms Academy in Moscow. While they were at the Academy, the History of the Military Art Department had the Afghanistan veterans write vignettes of their experience. They analyzed these, edited the best and added commentary as lessons learned for future war in mountain-desert terrain. The department published them as an in-house a book in 1991. The book was intended for internal use only, and, as such, shows both the good and...

Decoding the Virtual Dragon explains how Chinese Information Warfare concepts since 2003 fit into the strategic outlook, practices, and activities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Vladimir Putin has spent the last 10 years preparing to prevent his ouster. This book shows how he set up controls to monitor the population, prevent moves against him by internal intelligence agencies and the military. If there is enough interest, I will narrate the full book and make it available on Audible.com. If you would like to encourage this work and provide support to the effort, please consider becoming a Patron on Patreon. Information on how to do that can be found on our web site USGOVPUB.COM.

Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan Chapter 1 Blocking And Destroying Guerrilla Forces The Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in the Republic of Afghanistan garnered valuable combat experience and significantly expanded the theory and practice of combat in mountainous-desert terrain. Battalion and regimental-level combat was fought primarily in the mountains against separate detachments of mujihadeen insurgents. The war was fought under conditions where the enemy lacked any aviation capabilities, but had modern air defense systems and modern mines. A commercial sponsor has not been obtained ...

Chapter 1 Principles and Elements This handbook is an aid for soldiers in cold climates. However, expertise in dealing with cold-weather operations cannot be gained just from reading this handbook. To develop successful cold-weather field techniques, application training and operational experience are necessary.

Chapter 1 What is Strategy? This is an English translation of the Chinese analysis that was classified SECRET in Communist China in 2013. Below is an excerpt. Under the conditions of informatization, with the help of computer and network technology, the means and methods of war pre-practice greatly expanded, simulations and base drills have risen from the tactical level of the battle to the strategic level. Faces, strategic ideas, strategic plans, and strategic theories will be generated and examined in the prewarning environment for war. There is no commercial sponsor for this Podcast. If ...

ATP 3-20.15/MCRP 3-10B.1 encompasses techniques for tank platoons of armored brigade combat teams (ABCTs). It provides doctrinal guidance; describes relationships in the platoon; defines organizational roles and functions, capabilities, limitations; and lays out the responsibilities for platoons during unified land operations. The tank platoon is a unified team; all tanks crews work together to achieve mission success. A single tank can be vulnerable in the face of diverse battlefield hazards, such as enemy forces or unfavorable terrain and situations. These vulnerabilities are significantly ...

This article discusses the weaknesses that allowed Ukrainian Army units to defeat Russian battalion tactical groups (BTG) and describes tactics that an American brigade combat team (BCT) can employ to create similar opportunities to tactically defeat a BTG if required in a future conflict.

THE U.S. ARMY IN THE ARCTIC 9 Jan 2021 Chief of Staff Paper Number 3 Our Army exists to protect our nation and to preserve the peace. To meet that core requirement, the Army must man, train, equip, and organize to win in the Arctic. The Arctic is simultaneously an arena of competition, a line of attack in conflict, a vital area holding many of our nation’s natural resources, and a platform for global power projection. Regaining dominance in the Arctic provides new opportunities to engage and train with the many allies and partners around the world who also operate in extreme cold weather, ...

The resurgence of Russia on the world stage—seizing the Crimean Peninsula, destabilizing eastern Ukraine, intervening on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and shaping the information environment to suit its interests—poses a major challenge to the United States. Moscow will continue to aggressively pursue its foreign policy and security objectives by employing the full spectrum of the state’s capabilities. Its powerful military, coupled with the actual or perceived threat of intervention, allows its whole-of-government efforts to resonate widely. The hard copy book is also ...

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The medical platoon, also referred to as battalion aid station (BAS), coordinates the Army Health System (AHS) support operations for the battalion commander. The battalion aid station is a forward-most medically staffed treatment location organic to a maneuver battalion. It is uniquely organized, trained, and equipped to conduct medical treatment and evacuation tasks. This is an audio file of the manual. This title does not have a commercial sponsor. If you would like to sponsor this podcast, let us know at https://usgovpub.com. If you would like us to upload additional chapters, please let ...

ATP 3-21.8 provides the doctrinal framework for all Infantry platoons and squads. It provides techniques for employment of Infantry platoons and squads in conducting decisive actions. This is an audio file of the manual. This title does not have a commercial sponsor. If you would like to sponsor this podcast, let us know at https://usgovpub.com. If you would like us to upload additional chapters, please let us know the title name and consider becoming a patron at Patreon.com/usgovpub

TC 3-22.69 outlines techniques and requirements for advanced situational awareness (known as ASA) training. Included in the intended audience are Soldiers, particularly those tasked with integrating ASA concepts into training. Uniforms depicted in this publication were drawn without camouflage for clarity of the illustration. This is an audio file of the book. This title does not have a commercial sponsor. If you would like to sponsor this podcast, let us know at https://usgovpub.com.

ATP 3-50.21 sets forth the doctrine pertaining to survival in an isolated situation. The ATP discusses the tenets of survival and the methods Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, and contractors can use when surviving individually or in a group. Survival is the state of or fact of continuing to live or exist in spite of an isolating event. The end goal is to return to friendly forces with honor. This chapter discusses survival skills and situational understanding needed. This is an audio file of the manual. This title does not have a commercial sponsor. If you would like to sponsor this...

This is the story of combat from the guerrilla’s perspective and surviving against the overwhelming firepower and technology of a superpower. The audiobook consists of a series of combat vignettes related by Mujahideen combatants in Afghanistan that shows the good and the bad, the mistakes and successes of guerrillas fighting the Soviet military forces.

TC 3-76 Ranger Handbook Audio Book An Army leader is anyone who, by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility, inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. Army leaders motivate people inside and outside the chain of command to pursue actions, focus thinking, and shape decisions for the greater good of the organization. Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.