The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present
wars of the French Revolution and noted that the conduct of military operations had become ‘more complex and profound’ and that ...
course to seize and exploit the initiative and bring about a decision in a one-sided reading of Clausewitz’s assessment of the l ...
Manchuria, three Russian armies had faced five Japanese armies with neither side able to achieve decisive results in the field. ...
devastating Polish counter-offensive. Ideological enthusiasm had blinded the military and political leadership to operational li ...
study of shock armies in breakthrough operations during the German and Allied campaigns of 1918. Triandafillov studied the probl ...
defences. This would be achieved by organizational innovations and be based on the large-scale mechanization of the Red Army. Th ...
cadres of 18 divisions but the US Army has 180 divisions; the first has 5,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft, and the second has 50,00 ...
about the conduct of war. He had played a leading role in directing Soviet foreign policy during the decades of its isolation as ...
Soviet Union still faced the threat of war with Germany and Japan, Stalin asked Marshal Shaposhnikov to present the general staf ...
deployed and the fields cleared. Finnish pillboxes and bunkers proved resistant to indirect fire. Finnish guns had excellent fie ...
undergoing reforms to strengthen its discipline and troop training and this was expected to take years, even up to a decade. Sen ...
envelopment of Stalingrad using the forces of the three fronts, augmented by new forces from the Stavka reserve. The South-Weste ...
Initially, the Stavka itself was surprised by the number of troops, roughly 290,000, that had been encircled at Stalingrad. Acco ...
forces and stop the advance of Manstein’s armour, but these forces could not liberate Belgorod. 46 As winter operations gave way ...
of cutting off all Soviet forces within it. Kursk has been presented as the greatest tank battle of the Eastern Front, but it wa ...
premeditated defence. 53 Andrei Kokoshin, former first deputy minister of Russia and a leading scholar of Soviet and Russian mil ...
required from the State Defence Committee. Soviet industry and Lend Lease were now capable of supplying the Red Army with the we ...
ground operation began, Soviet bombers from Long-Range Aviation started their own attacks on German troop concentrations and art ...
his army group as the encirclements closed on his forward echelon, and he had no reserves to stop the attack towards Minsk. On 2 ...
intelligence kept its focus on what Konev showed and did not find what he concealed, thereby achieving operational surprise. On ...
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