Lester W. Grau is the Research Coordinator for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Grau has published over one hundred articles and studies on tactical, operational and geopolitical subjects.

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War, co-authored with Ali Jalali, was published in 1998.

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost, a translation from a study prepared for the Russian General Staff, was published in 2000, and is almost 700 libraries.

He is also republishing General Skeen's 1932 Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal Fighting On the North-West Frontier of India.