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Deep Battle: The Brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevskii
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281 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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August 28, 2012
Wow. In keeping with a theme, I am of the opinion that this could have been reduced to no more than 30-40 pages. It was interesting to read one of the earliest arguments for operational art and maneuver warfare (deep operations vice the positional warfare embodied by WWI), as well as an early call for combined and joint operations. Oh, and, at least by my read, a very early identification of the potential of airpower and even RPVs!
HOWEVER, I am not at all certain that I needed to read Tukhachevskii's thoughts on Fuller. Fuller was rough enough without Tukhachevskii's imperialist-bashing rants. And I'm REALLY pretty sure that I didn't actually need to read ACTUAL Soviet doctrine from the 1930s.
Good with the bad...good with the bad.
HOWEVER, I am not at all certain that I needed to read Tukhachevskii's thoughts on Fuller. Fuller was rough enough without Tukhachevskii's imperialist-bashing rants. And I'm REALLY pretty sure that I didn't actually need to read ACTUAL Soviet doctrine from the 1930s.
Good with the bad...good with the bad.
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