Dodge Billingsley, Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009. England, Helion and Company, 2013, 208 pages

Abstract

As the title itself makes clear, this work primarily concerns the military tactics used by Chechen combatants during their two armed conflicts with Russia, from 1994 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2009. One of the book's main points of interest, which greatly distinguishes it from the bulk of works on Chechnya that have been published in the last few years, is to show the different stages of the wars, including truces, sudden changes of direction, changes in tactics, lessons learned from var...