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Originally Posted by tcolvin
Richard Simpkin in "Deep Battle: the Brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevskii", published in 1987, wrote on page 64;
The reasons for this shortcoming are twofold. One factor (which also affects artillery support) is that a request for additional support coming up from a subordinate commander was - and apparently and astonishingly still is - a one-way ticket to the nearest penal battalion.
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LOL!
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Originally Posted by tcolvin
Mindful of the Red Army's adoption of 'Auftragstaktik' when switching to Tukhachevskii's Deep Operation Theory in 1942, I share Simpkin's astonishment that the VVS and artillery should have remained under the failed practice of 'Befehlstaktik'.
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Tuchachevskii has nothing to do with Deep Operation Theory. The author of the concept was Vladimir Triandafillov.