The report highlights criticisms of the Soviet Army in nontechnical fields, as expressed in selected Soviet military publications. While not conclusive in itself, the report describes some of the problems of training, motivation and discipline faced by the Soviet Army.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz,David M, ARMY INST FOR ADVANCED RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES APO NEW YORK...
This report examines the development of the Soviet Army's operational art against the Germans during World War-2. It examines the reconstruction and reorganization of the Soviet military forces after Hitler's invasion, the development and coordination of military tactics on the various fronts and the deployment of forces for defense or a Hack in several battles.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Soviet operational art, by definition, encompasses the planning, preparation, and conduct of operations within distinct geographical limits for the purpose of achieving military aims and objectives commensurate with the political goals of the nation. National political goals dictate the strategic nature and form of an operation and, hence, establish the context for operational and tactical measures necessary to achieve the strategic goals. To define the relationship between distinct levels of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Contemporary and future Soviet operational art and tactics must be understood within the context of what occurred in Soviet military art during the 1970's and early 1980's. Recent Soviet articles have treated the period 1971 to 1985 as a distinct one which followed a period of the l1960s, when the Soviets argued that 'a revolution in military affairs' had made theater and global war inescapably nuclear. The Soviets now believe a new period commenced in the mid- 1980s, characterized in part by a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
The Soviets firmly believe that the nature, means, and potential im pact of surprise and maskirovka evolve in consonance with changing conditions and changing times. This conviction is consistent with, if not an inevitable product of, their dialectical view of history. Changes in national attitudes (political, social) and mores, although difficult to measure, are part of the dialectical process. They determine impact and influence the atmosphere in which surprise and maskirovka are employed....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
In light of Soviet strategic priorities, this report assesses the likely strategic force posture of the Soviet Union, including force strength, force disposition, and mobilization capabilities.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Maskirovka deception has always been a primary consideration in Soviet planning and conduct of military operation. Combat experience has demonstrated that successful maskirovka yields surprise and hence marked advantage over the enemy. Soviet concern for maskirovka dates to the pre-Second World War years when military theorists worked out the theoretical basis for its conduct and real measures for its implementation on the battlefield. By the late 1930s Soviet planners at front and army level...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
The Soviets have continuously restructured and re-equipped their forces to match the current state of Soviet military doctrine, military science, military art, potential areas of military operations, and prospective enemies. The process is evolutionary yet dynamic, and while smaller changes occur constantly, at times major restructuring reforms have occurred to accommodate major changes in the military environment. Since 1945 the Soviets have conducted four major reforms of their force...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
On 22 June 1941, the German Army unleashed a devastating surprise attack on the Soviet Union. This attack heavily damaged the Red Army and ultimately shook the foundations of the Soviet state. The June disaster was, in part, the product of a Soviet strategic intelligence failure. In early September 1941, Guderian's Second Panzer Group turned abruptly southward from Smolensk, thrust by surprise into the rear of the Soviet Southwestern Front defending Kiev, and swallowed up over 600,000 Soviet...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Contents: The Prewar Experience; Evolution of Airborne Forces During World War II; Operational Employment: Vyaz'ma, January-February 1942; Operational Employment: Vyaz'ma, February-June 1942; Operational Employment: On the Dnepr, September 1943; Tactical Employment; The Postwar Years.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS COMBAT...
The Soviets have long understood the prerequisites for achieving combat success at the operational and tactical levels of war. Among these prerequisites is the necessity for conducting efficient, rapid maneuver. Long- term Soviet belief in the utility of operational maneuver is well-documented in Soviet military works and, to an increasing degree, in Western analyses of Soviet operational techniques, Western appreciation of Soviet concern for tactical maneuver, however, is less mature. Most...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
This article is concerned with the impact of military reform on Soviet concepts for conducting operational maneuver. Recent Soviet announcements call our attention to changes that will result in a recognizable defensive orientation in its armed forces. Actual structural changes have already begun. The author observes that it is as yet too early to determine if these moves will fulfill their intended purpose. He notes that political, economic and military factors will all influence the new...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
This report surveys contending Soviet views on the nature of future war as a major ingredient in the formulation of future Soviet military strategy. A major reality Soviet military planners must contend with in formulating a future military strategy is the nature of future war in general and the traditional concept of the initial period of war in particular.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Today the Soviets are confronted by changing conditions which impel them to alter their force structure. Purely military considerations, in particular the accelerating pace of technological change and the evolving battlefield environment, necessitate fundamental changes. For a decade the Soviets have gradually adjusted their force structure to accommodate these new realities, but today the existing force structure has evolved as far as it can. Clearly, new forms of forces are required which...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
It is clear that no really objective or more complete picture of operations on the Eastern Front is possible without extensive use of Soviet source material. Thus definitive accounts of operations in the East have yet to be written. How definitive they will ultimately be depends in large part on the future candor and scope of Soviet historical efforts. In the interim it is the task of American historians, drawing upon all sources, Soviet and German alike, to challenge those judgments and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
This report analyzes the rationales for and the range of future Soviet military strategy. A wide variety of internal and external political, economic, and social factors have coalesced to produce striking change in the Soviet Union and its former satellites. Although no one can predict with any degree of certainty what these changes will ultimately produce, they must be considered as the context for future Soviet military policy, doctrine, and strategy.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS, *USSR, *MILITARY...
Intelligence, simply defined as knowledge of the enemy and his intentions, is seldom a decisive factor in war. It does not alter the strength of contending armies and the overall war aims of contending states, and its may have little effect on the planning and conduct of operations. A force which lacks good intelligence may still succeed because of its strength, sound planning, and military efficiency. The converse is also true. Sound intelligence, however, can affect a nation's decision to go...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
In a 1967 study, Y. Novikov and F. Sverdlov discussed the 'Operational maneuver concept. It is' undertaken to achieve success in an operation in keeping with the concept and under the guidance of the commander of an operational unit. Its scope, as regards forces involved, and particularly area and time (except for maneuver with nuclear power) transcends the bounds of the battlefield. Operational maneuver is aimed at changing the situation in the course of an operation to facilitate the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
Today the certainties of the cold war world are fast eroding, and there is uncertainty regarding what structures will replace them. In the past, similar periods of profound changes have often produced instability and conflict. This reality impels us to understand more thoroughly the nature and scope of the changes we confront. The Soviet Union rests at the focal point of those global changes. Revolutionary currents have swept across the nation which have severely shaken its internal political...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *USSR,...
By exploiting formerly classified materials, this report investigates the nature and evolution of Soviet operational art in the inter-war years.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glantz, David M, ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SOVIET ARMY STUDIES...
