Incursion to Tatsinskaya’s airport in the Christmas of 1942 The Deep Incursion to Tatsinskaya. In the exploitation of the break success, Vatutin threw on December 18, the 24 Corps of Tanks (Badanov) to attack and occupy Tatsinskaya and the 25 Corps of Tanks (Pavlov), against Morozovskaya‘s airport. Behind them, advanced the 1st. Mechanized Corps of […]
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Genesis and practice of the Russian strategy of deep incursion. 2nd Part.
Publicado en: COMBINED ARMS UNITS IN COMBAT EAST VS WEST WARFARE GEOGRAPHY AND OPERATIONS GROUND MILITARY TRANSITABILITY Maneuver Warfare Military History Military Theory Modern Warfare Operational Strategy Principles of the Operational Strategy Russia War Theory Second World War THE FUNCTIONAL OR POSITIONAL DISLOCATION OF THE ENEMY THE INDUCED SHOCK IN THE ENEMY The Study of Military Themes THE VULNERABILITIES OF THE ENEMY TRANSITABILITY OR GROUND ONGOING USSR WAR THEORY
Genesis and practice of the Russian strategy of deep operation.
Incursion to Tatsinskaya’s airport in the Christmas of 1942 Introduction. After the invasion of the USSR by the 3 Groups of Armies of the Wehrmatch (North, C; Center, B; South, A) on June 22, 1941, remained clear the higher capacity and efficiency of these, opposite to the Soviet armies deployed in the border and in […]
Publicado en: COMBINED ARMS UNITS IN COMBAT EAST VS WEST WARFARE General GEOGRAPHY AND OPERATIONS GROUND MILITARY TRANSITABILITY Maneuver Warfare Military History Military Theory Modern Warfare Operational Strategy Principles of the Operational Strategy Russia War Theory Second World War THE EASTERN FRONT IN SECOND WORLD WAR. THE FUNCTIONAL OR POSITIONAL DISLOCATION OF THE ENEMY THE INDUCED SHOCK IN THE ENEMY The Study of Military Themes THE VULNERABILITIES OF THE ENEMY TRANSITABILITY OR GROUND ONGOING USSR WAR THEORY
The Tactical or Operational Military Success. Its Signs.
Introduction. It is not a question of defining how to act, thing that already we try to do in other published articles or that they will be in a future. But that, perceiving in the operations development certain facts, guidelines or behaviors of the conflicting parts and of the objective conditions (of the ground, etc.), […]
Publicado en: COMBINED ARMS UNITS IN COMBAT COMMAND'S CUALITIES CORRECT SENSE OF THE COMMAND Crisis and Conflicts EUROPE DEFENSE GEOGRAPHY AND OPERATIONS GROUND MILITARY TRANSITABILITY Ideological Conflicts INTERNAL CIVIL CONFLICTS Maneuver Warfare Military History MILITARY MOTIVATION Military Theory Modern Warfare National Defense NATIONAL OR TOTAL STRATEGY Operational Strategy SMALL MILITARY UNITS Strategy TACTICS THE COMBAT THE EASTERN FRONT IN SECOND WORLD WAR. TRANSITABILITY OR GROUND ONGOING
THE INFANTRY FIGHTING: EAST VS WEST.
The last tens of meters up to reaching a determined enemy or gullible in his positions, form the fighting zone of the infantry. And she has yet major validity and importance in the actual wars. With the approximation to the combat from the brigade, the last global direct human possible vision of the units and […]
Publicado en: COMBINED ARMS UNITS IN COMBAT COMMAND'S CUALITIES CORRECT SENSE OF THE COMMAND COUNTERINSURGENCY WARFARE EAST VS WEST WARFARE GROUND MILITARY TRANSITABILITY Guerrilla Warfare Military Theory Rapid Reaction Forces SMALL MILITARY UNITS TACTICS THE INFANTRY COMBAT TRANSITABILITY OR GROUND ONGOING
THE MILITARY SURPRISE AS ART AND HETERODOXY
Almost all the technologies, tactics and operations directed to obtaining the tactical or operational surprise over the enemy, can be benevolent considered at the edge of the regulations and existing procedure. That are practised in the different countries and groups of them or supranational alliances. Between other reasons, to fight only according to the «book» […]
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THE MANEUVER WARFARE. THE CONCEPT OF THE MODERN AIRLAND BATTLE.
AN INTERPRETATION BY FIELDMARSCHAL ERICH VON MANSTEIN. A little known example illustrates the omnipresent transcendence of logistics and the line of communication (more or less branched out) in operations and their final results. Between January 29 and mid-March 1943, the Soviets developed an operation called Donbass at the southwest of the Donetz. This […]
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THE CHINDITS: FORCES OF DEEP INCURSION.
AN OPERATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF THE ENEMY REAR A process that we will call of «cascade surprise» was created at the south of the operations theater of the Far East by the British general Orde Wingate at the beginning of 1.944. For it he used the deep incursion force, type light reinforced division, called the Chindits. […]
Publicado en: Central Asia COMMAND'S CUALITIES FAR EAST Maneuver Warfare Military History Military Theory Operational Strategy Second World War SOUTHEAST OF ASIA Strategy TÁCTICAS THE COMBAT The Study of Military Themes
The Flexible and Mobile Defense of the «Ideological Positions» II.
(CONTINUATION) Origin and Sociocultural Meaning of the Civilizations. The civilization is literally the art of living in the big settlements or cívitas. That originally were the first human settlements. Where the man first settled and left roaming about as imperious and vital need. And could manage to generate remaining benefits, in the form of cereals, […]
Publicado en: Civic Education Crisis and Conflicts Ideological Conflicts Internal social conflicts Military Theory Politics Social and National Decadence Social Philosophy
The Flexible and Mobile Defense of the «Ideological Positions»
A nation is an individuals society provided with a social political self conscience. In creating and vertebrating it collaborate the history, the tradition and the customs, and the language and the moral own sense. And secondly contribute to it the ethnic and the own territory, that not always exist, specially the first one. This way, […]
Publicado en: Civic Education Crisis and Conflicts Internal social conflicts Military Theory Politics Social and National Decadence Social Philosophy
THE ARROGANCE OF THE COMMAND IN COMBAT II.
(CONTINUATION) Then, the dragoons of the right British flank ran in a “beheading charge”, to ruin the militiamen’s rush, pushing them up. And that in their flight, already in panic, run over and dissolve the formations of the line of regulars. Morgan sent his orders to Washington with an assistant. The American dragoons advanced from […]
Publicado en: COMMAND'S CUALITIES Military Theory TACTICS THE COMBAT
THE ARROGANCE OF THE COMMAND IN COMBAT
On January 17, 1781, the American brigadier 45-year-old Daniel Morgan, faced in Cowpens, in a small battle without operational transcendence, with the British regular forces of the lieutenant colonel 27-year-old Banastre Tarleton. Both were possessing similar forces. But half of the large thousand men of Morgan were territorial militias. The shock with the regular British […]
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The Western Defense and the Great Strategy of his Nations II.
(CONTINUATION) This way, for us, to cut away in our National Defense is to damage, hurt or mutilate, according to the cases, the solidity, conviction, credibility and continuity of the internal and external projection of the Spain “seal». It is not a question of having up to an elite unit of «infantry on donkeys» (as […]
Publicado en: Atomic Conflicts Evils of Bureaucracy Ideological Conflicts Military Theory Modern Warfare National Defense Social and National Decadence Strategy Western Defense
The Western Defense and the Great Strategy of his Nations
Since more than two decades, the USA has been systematically reducing his Defense budgets. Free of the threat of a global confrontation with the USSR and his allies of the Warsaw Pact, the USA has dedicated growing quantities of the contributors money to increase their squalid «social public expenditures». But, the USA is something more […]
Publicado en: Atomic Conflicts Counterinsurgency Operations Crisis and Conflicts Evils of Bureaucracy Guerrilla Warfare Ideological Conflicts Military Theory Modern Warfare National Defense Social and National Decadence Social Philosophy Strategy Western Defense
THE SOVIET OPERATIONAL STRATEGY III.
(continuation) THE TANKS ARMIES AS SUMMIT WEAPON OF THE ART SCIENCE OF THE SOVIET WARFARE. Its structure, its operational characteristics and its performance according to the Soviet military Theory and in the practice. The practical failures of the Soviet deployments. His tactical and operative employ in the marches and combats. Once inserted the tanks army […]
Publicado en: Atomic Conflicts Crisis and Conflicts Maneuver Warfare Military History Military Theory Modern Warfare Second World War Strategy USSR WAR THEORY
MODERN WEAPONS: THE DRONE AND THE SUICIDAL MUJAIDIN
If Plutarch was living today, surely he would write one of his «Parallel Lives» (one of two collections of his works), dedicated to trying and comparing the not crewed planes («death from above») and the suicidal yihadists («Allahu Akbar»). In effect, both are annoying and asymmetrical weapon, directed against the personnel and the mental and […]
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THE SOVIET OPERATIONAL STRATEGY FROM 1920 TO 1990.
(continuation) THE TANKS ARMIES AS SUMMIT WEAPON OF THE ART SCIENCE OF THE SOVIET WARFARE. Its structure, its operational characteristics and its performance according to the Soviet military Theory and in the practice. The practical failures of the Soviet deployments. The structure and combat capacities of the tanks armies. They were formidable war machines. Each […]
Publicado en: Atomic Conflicts Military History Military Theory Modern Warfare Operational Strategy Second World War USSR WAR THEORY