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You wouldn't say the 2nd Jassy-Kishinev? Not only did it secure a similar proportion of territory as D'niepr-Carpathian (if not more)...

Hmm... perhaps. It'd be a very tough pill for Churchill -with his very romanticized view of the Empire and White Man's Burden attitudes...

Which, as I noted, did not exist. Historical recruitment hit its limit and even then most of the volunteers wound up on policing duty...

Turkey, maybe, as the Turkish Army is something of an unknown quantity. But getting bogged down in Iran? No, not happening. If the...

Oh, I see. Yes, gotcha. A quick glance at the Wikipedia article tells me that the Finnish President basically had to be badgered into...

I'm talking in March 1940, after the military told the government their options were to either make peace or start go into the woods for...

A bit of both. Hitler didn't really ever let logistical realities bother them while the German General Staff tended to have a tradition...

Stalin was hardly robbing the Germans blind. In fact, the ratios on the trade deals were HIGHLY FAVORABLE to the Germans and much less...

I mean, even with the purges, the Soviets could have done it if they had just taken the Finns seriously and prepared for an actual...

Not surprising. The consistency of fuck-ups probably fell, but fuck-ups nonetheless kept happening. War won by the least incompetent...

Funny enough, I ran into a couple examples recently of rifle units botching their deployment from march columns in ‘44! You also had the...

Yes... and no. While junior leadership was always a weakness for the Red Army, it was still something that improved as the war went on...

Well, that certainly explains such things as STAVKA having to issue orders which said such obvious things as "make sure you weaken the...

I mean, not entirely. There were some plans to try and force open passages to Berlin in the event of a second Berlin blockade. The...

I'm more skeptical. The thing is, that isn't how industrial/post-industrial, bureaucratic, professionalized militaries seem to react to...