Maneuver Warfare - Lessons Learnt from Manstein, Rommel & Guderian

[Joe Shearer]

Nopes...

Maneuver warfare just emphasizes on mobility being the essence of all operations. This can be achieved through tanks, helicopters etc...different modes. Towards what ends one uses this maneuver warfare is something else.

Deep Battle theory, as i already mentioned, focuses on engaging all LEVELS of enemy force simultaneously, which saps the responses of the enemy. Now this can be achieved through maneuver warfare, by artillery fire, by air force, by special forces, by diplomatic maneuvers, by water maneuver, espionage etc etc.

I hope you don't mind my interference. It might help your youthful admirers if you inform them that the original concept was thought up by Tukhachevsky, essentially a cavalry general, whose exuberant talent found expression in very deep raids on the enemy - examples were his campaign against Denikin in the Crimea and his incredible Polish campaign. So essentially, what it boiled down to during the Civil War was a simultaneous attack on the enemy's front, and bypassing attacks deep into the rear echelons, targeting reserves, supply lines, and, most terrifying of all, enemy headquarters locations.

When he got his wishes and 'industrialised' the Soviet Army, the doctrine translated into attacking all echelons of the enemy's formations, front, middle and rear, with all arms, infantry, armour and artillery, as well as aircraft. However, even at the start of the war with Hitler Germany, the cavalry influence was very, very strong in the Red Army.

Zhukov's Khalkhin Gol is in some accounts considered to be the first implementation post-Tukhachevsky (who was executed in 1937; Khalkhin Gol was 1939).

Sorry for the intrusion.

 

[PanzerKiel]

I hope you don't mind my interference. It might help your youthful admirers if you inform them that the original concept was thought up by Tukhachevsky, essentially a cavalry general, whose exuberant talent found expression in very deep raids on the enemy - examples were his campaign against Denikin in the Crimea and his incredible Polish campaign. So essentially, what it boiled down to during the Civil War was a simultaneous attack on the enemy's front, and bypassing attacks deep into the rear echelons, targeting reserves, supply lines, and, most terrifying of all, enemy headquarters locations.

When he got his wishes and 'industrialised' the Soviet Army, the doctrine translated into attacking all echelons of the enemy's formations, front, middle and rear, with all arms, infantry, armour and artillery, as well as aircraft. However, even at the start of the war with Hitler Germany, the cavalry influence was very, very strong in the Red Army.

Zhukov's Khalkhin Gol is in some accounts considered to be the first implementation post-Tukhachevsky (who was executed in 1937; Khalkhin Gol was 1939).

Sorry for the intrusion.

No problem.

Actually I did make a mention of Tukhachevsky some pages before....hoping that someone would jump into that dry river.... Alas....

Deep Battle is of late 20s /early 30s. My mentor in this case is Mikhail Tukhachevsky.



In the case of subcontinent.....or to take your example of Gen Harbaksh, or even of Gen Candeth....they did command multiple Corps like Patton....but unlike Patton, all these Corps were fighting their own independent battle, for independent objectives.

 

[Joe Shearer]

No problem.

Actually I did make a mention of Tukhachevsky some pages before....hoping that someone would jump into that dry river.... Alas....

LOLOL.

No problem.

Actually I did make a mention of Tukhachevsky some pages before....hoping that someone would jump into that dry river.... Alas....

I am so tempted to let a ferret into the chicken coop, and introduce Liddell Hart and the Expanding Torrent.