With Western conflict possible in Yemen and Iran, I discuss the vagaries and verities of mountain warfare. The special hell of high altitude and colder temperatures and their effect on fighting and warfare.
I assess how the RMAs rapidly displacing centuries-old conflict norms are going to look for the remainder of the century.
Buppert’s Law of Military Topography:
“Mountainous terrain held by riflemen who know what they are about cannot be militarily defeated.”
References:
Points of Resistance and Departure: An interview with James C. Scott
Lester Grau and Charles J. Bartles Mountain Warfare and Other Lofty Problems: Foreign mountain combat veterans discuss movement and maneuver, training and resupply (Helion Studies in Military History)
Lester Grau The Bear Went Over The Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan [Illustrated Edition]
Lester Grau The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
Mark Thompson The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
James C. Scott The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Carl von Clausewitz On War
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
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