Makhmut Gareev
Born June 23, 1923(1923-06-23)
Place of birth	Cheliabinsk USSR
Allegiance	Soviet Union,  Russia
Service/branch	Soviet Army,
Years of service	1941-1992
Rank	General of the Army
Commands held	Chief Adviser to the President Democratic Republic of Afghanistan - Chief of the Armed Forces DRA President of the Academy of Military Sciences
Battles/wars	World War II Soviet war in Afghanistan
Awards	Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner (4 times) Order of Alexander Nevsky Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd class) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Red Star Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces (2nd and 3rd class)

Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev (Russian: Махмут Ахметович Гареев Tatar: Мәхмүт Әхмәт улы Гәрәев) (b. June 23, 1923 in Cheliabinsk in a Tatar family) is the Russian General of the Army, a historian, and a military scientist. Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Currently the president of the Russian Academy of the Military Science. He holds the Doctor of Science degree in History and Military Science.

A decorated veteran of the Second World War, he had a life-long career in the Soviet military starting from the Third Lieutenant in the beginning of the war (having graduated from TVOKU in Tashkent in 1941) and reaching a rank of the General in 1970s.

His positions also included serving as the military adviser to the President of Egypt in 1970s and to President Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1989-1991.

Gareev has been involved in work on military history since 1950s. He authored many books including by himself or as an editor-in-chief of the collective works. Some of his books and articles have been translated and published into English. He is considered to be Russia's most outstanding military theoretician.

His religion is Sunni Islam.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

• General Gareev, "If War Comes Tomorrow?: The Contours of Future Armed Conflict (Cass Series on Soviet Military Theory and Practice)" (Paperback), Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0714643688
• Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev, "M.V. Frunze, Military Theorist" (Hardcover), Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0080351832
• M. A. Gareev, "Marshal Zhukov: Velichie i unikalnost polkovodcheskogo iskusstva", Vostochnyi universitet, 1996, ISBN 5878651092
• M. A. Gareev, "Neodnoznachnye stranitsy voiny: Ocherki o problemnykh voprosakh istorii Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny", "RFM", 1995, ISBN 5887930012
• M. A. Gareev, "Konturen des bewaffneten Kampfes der Zukunft: Ein Ausblick auf das Militarwesen in den nachsten 10 bis 15 Jahren (Schriftenreihe des Bundesinstituts fur ... und Internationale Studien, Koln)", Nomos; 1. Aufl edition (1996), ISBN 3789039381
• M. A. Gareev, "Moia posledniaia voina: Afganistan bez sovetskikh voisk", INSAN, 1996, ISBN 5858402771

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