Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War - Bennett Park Raiders

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ali Ahmad. Jalali is a former Afghan Army Colonel. A distinguished
graduate of the Military University in Kabul, he has also attended the
Infantry Officers Advanced Course in Fort Benning, Georgia; the
British Army Staff College in Camberley; the U.S. Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California; the Frunze Academy in Moscow and
the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. He taught in the
Military Academy and advanced military schools in Kabul. He joined
the Mujahideen in 1980 and served as the top military planner on the
directing staff of the Islamic Unity of Afghan Mujahideen (an alliance
of three moderate Mujahideen factions) during the early 1980s before
he joined Voice of America (VOA). As a journalist, he has covered
Central Asia and Afghanistan over the past 15 years. He is the author
of several books including works on the Soviet Military, works on
Central Asia and a three-volume Military History of Afghanistan.
Lester W. Grau is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel. He served
as an infantry officer and a Soviet Foreign Area Officer (FAO) throughout
his career. He fought in Vietnam. In 1981, he completed one year
of Russian language training at the Defense Language Institute at
Monterey, California and then graduated from the U.S. Army Russian
Institute (USARI) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1983.
USARI was a two-year post-graduate school which dealt with all
aspects of the then Soviet Union and all classes were taught in
Russian. He has served in Moscow and traveled extensively in the former
Warsaw Pact and former Soviet Union and continues that travel
today. Since 1983, his work has focused on Russian and Soviet tactics
and operations. He has written a book on Soviet tactics in
Afghanistan. Mr. Grau currently works at the Foreign Military
Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth where he continues to
work on operational and tactical issues.