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Originally Posted by Dean Actually, I think that honour belongs to General Alexander Vasilevskiy, who was the commander of the Far East Military District at the time of Operation August Storm, the invasion of Manchuria, Sakhalin, and Korea. His armies of well over 1.5 million men crushed the Japanese Kwantung Army in less than a week. It was the greatest military operation ever accomplished of any kind, |
Woah, hang on a bit, that's quite a claim. The greatest military operation ever? As Persus stated the relative success of operations have to be judged by certain criteria, one of which is the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the forces in question. You'll have a hard time convincing me that August Storm was indeed the greatest miltary operation ever accomplished. Do you really believe it tops Hannibal's campaign against the Roman Empire, Julius Caeser's conquest of Gaul and even something like Fall Gelb?