How to Survive and Win in Afghanistan: Combat Experience of GRU Special Forces

In this book, the author of the super-bestseller “GRU Special Forces Survival Manual,” which has already seen 10 editions, gathered invaluable experience in combat application of the Special Forces in the Afghan War. This is the best training guide on how to survive and win in Afghanistan. It’s a “master class” from GRU veterans, whose record includes hundreds of combat missions, storming Amin’s palace and the enemy stronghold “Kare(r)a,” intercepting caravans in Herat and Kandahar, reconnaissance raids and blocking the border, destroying transfer bases and eliminating enemy ambushes, liquidating leaders of band formations—and dozens more operations included in all special forces training manuals.

According to General Gromov, “Only soldiers of boundless courage and decisiveness could do what the special forces did in Afghanistan. People who served in special forces battalions were professionals of the highest caliber.” And, according to the Americans, “The only Soviet troops that fought successfully were the special-purpose forces”!

Previously, the book was published under the title “GRU Special Forces in Afghanistan.”