Recommend starting with doctrinal readings, before reading historical books on Mountain Warfare. The doctrine will provide the context to pull the so-what out of the historical articles. There should be plenty of reading on Afghanistan available, but I also recommend reading about mountain warfare in northern Italy during WWI.
Recommend starting with brass tacks tactics in this U.S. Marine Manual on Mountain Warfare/Operations.
http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/MC...-35.1A%20z.pdf
There appears to be a link the Army Field Manual on Mountain Operations here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ndex_2003.html
Very short read, very basic, but still worth looking over:
Mountain Warfare Lessons : The Soviet Afghanistan Campaign
http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/b...MP07010802.pdf
Found the U.S. Army's 1944 Mountain Warfare Manual accidentally while looking for the current one.
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA...Fs/FM70-10.PDF
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