Russia's Chechen wars 1994-2000 lessons from urban combat

Summary: An examination of the difficulties faced by the Russian military in planning and carrying out urban operations in Chechnya. Russian and rebel military forces fought to control the Chechen city of Grozny in the winters of 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, as well as clashing in smaller towns and villages. The author examines both Russian and rebel tactics and operations in those battles, focusing on how and why the combatants' approaches changed over time. The study concludes that while the Russian military was able to significantly improve its ability to carry out a number of key tasks in the five-year interval between the wars, other important missions--particularly in the urban realm--were ignored, largely in the belief that the urban mission could be avoided. This conscious decision not to prepare for a most stressful battlefield met with devastating results, a lesson the United States would be well served to study.

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ISBN: 0833032488 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780833032485 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0833029983
ISBN: 9780833029980
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxv, 102 pages) : maps
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Prepared for the United States Army. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited." Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-102).
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Grozny I: 1994-1995 -- Return to Grozny: 1999-2000 -- Conclusions.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.