Specifically, it's called The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan by Lester Grau.
If it's intentional, this foreshadows both the North Vietnamese insurgency* Hal Moore is sent to fight, and his dedication to researching his opponent's tactics before combat began.
*Yes, I know the NVA Moore fought were regular army, but they were using guerrilla tactics at that stage of the war.
I hope he does in death what he did in life. Kill a shitload of commies.
God loves the infantry, gentlemen.
I'm burning an OX Lancero in his honor tonight. Light 'em up and watch, "We Were Soldiers".
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> Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Harold "Hal" Moore has died at his home in Auburn, according to a release from the Fort Benning Military Base.
> Moore is best known for his actions at the Battle of Ia Drang where he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment.
> "Within 20 minutes of the first shot, the 7th Cavalry, vastly outnumbered, was assaulted by hundreds of enemy furiously determined to overrun it. After a three day bloodbath, the enemy quit the field leaving over six hundred of their dead littering the battleground. Hal was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second highest award for valor, for his actions during the fight. Hal then assumed command of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division and led it through several major campaigns in 1966 earning another Bronze Star Medal for Valor for carrying wounded to safety under"withering small and automatic weapons fire.
> His actions in the Battle of Ia Drang were later reflected in the movie 'We Were Soldiers' in which Moore was portrayed by actor Mel Gibson.
> Prior to his actions in Vietnam, Moore graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and then commanded a battalion in the newly formed air mobile 11th Air Assault Division at Fort Benning.
> Moore was born in Bardstown, Kentucky on Feb. 13, 1922.
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