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Old 26th April 2011, 01:22
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Re: Unresponsive VVS.

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Originally Posted by tcolvin View Post
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.
LOL!
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Originally Posted by tcolvin View Post
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'.
Tuchachevskii has nothing to do with Deep Operation Theory. The author of the concept was Vladimir Triandafillov.
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