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Page 266 The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
CHAPTER COMMENTARY
The Soviet/DRA cordon and search usually involved a number of
forces in a combined arms battle or operation. The Mujahideen who
had the best success surviving these did so because their actions
were centrally coordinated, they had developed contingency plans to
deal with them and they had built redundant field fortifications to
slow the Soviet/DRA advance and fragment their efforts. The betterprepared
Mujahideen always retained a central reserve and were
adept at counterattacking the flanks of the attacker. The Mujahideen
who had the most difficulty with cordon and search operations
were usually separate groups who had little or no ties to a central
Mujahideen planning authority, had worked out no contingency
plans and had taken no steps to fortify the area.