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Author: A. A. Sidorenko Publisher: ISBN: 9780898756104 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
The Offensive is significant and representative Soviet military writing, translated and published under the auspices of the United States Air Force in 1970. Soviet Party-military spokesmen stipulate that introduction of nuclear weapons into their armed forces brought about "a revolution in military affairs." They further state this "revolution" has caused complete revisions in Soviet military doctrine, strategy and tactics. The study of history shows that in armed conflict victory over the enemy can best be achieved through offensive actions. It is the offensive that assures complete defeat of the enemy and seizure of important objectives and regions. This is the view expressed by Colonel A. A. Sidorenko, Doctor of Military Science and faculty member of the Frunze Military Academy, in The Offensive. His work was listed as recommended reading in "The Soldier?s Bookshelf" section of the annual Calendar of a Soldier. Colonel Sidorenko is a well-known Soviet military spokesman with many credits to his name. Colonel Sidorenko provides the student of military affairs with an enhanced understanding of Soviet military thought.
Author: A. A. Sidorenko Publisher: ISBN: 9780898756104 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
The Offensive is significant and representative Soviet military writing, translated and published under the auspices of the United States Air Force in 1970. Soviet Party-military spokesmen stipulate that introduction of nuclear weapons into their armed forces brought about "a revolution in military affairs." They further state this "revolution" has caused complete revisions in Soviet military doctrine, strategy and tactics. The study of history shows that in armed conflict victory over the enemy can best be achieved through offensive actions. It is the offensive that assures complete defeat of the enemy and seizure of important objectives and regions. This is the view expressed by Colonel A. A. Sidorenko, Doctor of Military Science and faculty member of the Frunze Military Academy, in The Offensive. His work was listed as recommended reading in "The Soldier?s Bookshelf" section of the annual Calendar of a Soldier. Colonel Sidorenko is a well-known Soviet military spokesman with many credits to his name. Colonel Sidorenko provides the student of military affairs with an enhanced understanding of Soviet military thought.
Author: Colonel David M Glantz Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1786250438 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 42
Book Description
In his classic work, On War, Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “As we shall show, defense is a stronger form of fighting than attack.” A generation of nineteenth century officers, nurtured on the study of the experiences of Napoleon and conditioned by the wars of German unification, had little reason to accept that view. The offensive spirit swept through European armies and manifested itself in the regulations, plans, and mentality of those armiehe events of 1939, 1940, and 1941 in Poland, France, and Russia respectively again challenged Clausewitz’ claim of the superiority of the defense and prompted armies worldwide to frantically field large armored forces and develop doctrines for their use. While blitzkrieg concepts ruled supreme, it fell to that nation victimized most by those concepts to develop techniques to counter the German juggernaut. The Soviets had to temper a generation of offensive tradition in order to marshal forces and develop techniques to counter blitzkrieg. In essence, the Soviet struggle for survival against blitzkrieg proved also to be a partial test of Clausewitz’ dictum. In July 1943, after arduous months of developing defensive techniques, often at a high cost in terms of men and material, the Soviets met blitzkrieg head-on and proved that defense against it was feasible. The titanic, grinding Kursk operation validated, in part, Clausewitz’ views. But it also demonstrated that careful study of force organization and employment and application of the fruits of that study can produce either offensive or defensive victory. While on the surface the events of Kursk seemed to validate Clausewitz’ view, it is often forgotten that, at Kursk, the Soviets integrated the concept of counteroffensive into their grand defensive designs. Thus the defense itself was meaningless unless viewed against the backdrop of the renewed offensive efforts and vice versa. What Kursk did prove was that strategic, operational, and tactical defenses could counter blitzkrieg.
Author: Joseph D. Douglass Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
"Major topics addressed in this monograph include: Soviet interests in conventional capabilities (in particular, sub-unit operations); the advantages which might be derived from a conventional phase (most of which are oriented toward better achievement of an effective, surprise nuclear strike); the characteristics of a conventional phase; and the factors that bear on the timing of the transition to nuclear operations"--Preface.
Author: A. A. Sidorenko
Author: A. A. Sidorenko
Author: Андрей Алексеевич Сидоренко
Author: Andrej Alekseevič Sidorenko
Author: Andrej A. Sidorenko
Author: Andrei Alekseevich Sidorenko
Author: Andreĭ Alekseevich Sidorenko
Author: United States. Air Force
Author: Colonel David M Glantz
Author: Joseph D. Douglass
Author: David Glantz