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Originally Posted by Kunikov
Amazing that people so easily make such blanket statements. Can you please name all the commissars who had 'little or no military training' and the killed off 'experienced officers' whom they replaced?
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The purges
were bad for the Red Army though, this can be agreed, although the poster's statement was indeed a blanket one. Brilliant commanders such as Tukhachevsky were lost, whether you agree with the notion he was plotting against Stalin or not.
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Originally Posted by Kunikov Looks like you haven't learned much since 13. I'm sorry, "communist warfare doctrine", are you just making things up now? Can you provide a source where I can read about this "communist warfare doctrine"? |
He probably means the concept of 'Deep Operations' or 'Deep Battle'. Wasn't Deep Operations as a doctrine temporarily abandoned by the Red Army after the Winter War, only to reappear later on? I suspect he was also referring to the Red Army tactics of 'human waves' which were also used in the Winter War and at least, in 1941 against Germany. Whilst Deep Operations is a sound battlefield system the latter is clearly not.