The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali & Lester W. Grau

Author:Ali Ahmad Jalali & Lester W. Grau [Jalali, Ali Ahmad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mujahideen, Russian army, Afghanistan, Soviet-Afghan war, guerrilla warfare, counter-insurgency, Soviet Union
ISBN: 9781623580544
Publisher: Tales End Press
Published: 2012-07-03T04:00:00+00:00

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Footnotes

1. Map sheet 2882. [return]

2. General Gulzarak Zadran was an officer in the Royal Afghan Army. He trained in the United States and attended the Afghan Army Higher Officers Training Institute, where the author, Ali Jalali, was his instructor. He joined the resistance and fought in Paktia Province. He fought in Zhawar one and two and at the Satakandow pass. He belonged to Abdul-Rab Russul Sayyaf’s Islamic Union of Afghanistan (IUA). After the fall of the DRA, he became the Deputy Minister of Defense in the interim government. Currently he lives near Peshawar. [return]

3. It was common practice for Mujahideen and DRA to enter each others radio nets for deception, harassment or to pass messages. General Gulzarak would often talk to the other side and curse and insult them. [return]

4. Sources for this vignette include Commander Mulla Malang, Akhund Zada Qasem, several Mujahideen from Uruzgan, Kandahar and Helmand Provinces and Mr. Jalali’s personal notes and papers. [return]

5. Mulla Malang states that he was a general officer. [return]

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