Fangs of the Lone Wolf - Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009
| Author | Dodge Billingsley with Lester W. Grau |
|---|---|
| Published | 2012 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A U.S. Army FMSO study retelling the Chechen wars from the guerrillas’ side: about 30 small-unit combat vignettes, built from interviews with Chechen fighters.
Published by the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, the U.S. Army’s open-source research unit, with the Marine Corps as co-sponsor; text © 2012 Combat Films and Research. Dodge Billingsley, a documentary filmmaker who covered the Caucasus, wrote it with FMSO analyst Lester Grau, co-author of earlier studies of the Soviet-Afghan war from the mujahideen side.
The book is a set of short vignettes — each with a map — of engagements across the First (1994–96) and Second (1999–2009) Chechen Wars, told largely from the perspective of the Chechen fighters: an outnumbered, poorly equipped force fighting a much larger conventional army. Each vignette ends with commentary drawing out the tactical lessons for military readers.
What it is: a U.S. Army-sponsored military history in the FMSO tradition, written for professional military education. The copy is hosted by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Public copy: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D110-PURL-gpo106848/pdf/GOVPUB-D110-PURL-gpo106848.pdf
172 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.