"Review - Book, AFM Volume 2, Part 2, A Treatise..." Topic

… on Soviet Operational Art.

"This was a truly great find by Andy Miles who kindly posted it onto the Red Storm Rising facebook page. It's not quite the British equivalent to the FM 100 series, it was written in 1991 from the perspective of understanding Soviet Operational Art as the British along with most Western Nations had given this particular subject a stiff ignoring for most of the Cold War. As the author puts it, the Western Nations experience of operations during WW2 was at a different order of Magnitude to the Soviet and points out that whilst the Western allies deployed some 3 Army Groups comprising 91 Divisions on a front of 400 km, in 1944 the Red Army had 10 fronts with 57 Armies and over 560 Divisions and Corps deployed on a frontage of 3200 km.

AFM Volume 2 was produced in 3 parts and whilst this review focuses on Part 2, I will look to pick up on parts 1 and 3 at a later date, for completeness the parts are…."

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Full review here

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Amicalement
Armand

I can download "Vol 2, Part 3 Tactics", but to get "Vol 2 Part 3 A Treatise On Operational Art" click ,above the Red Star, on "Review-Web Resources: The Essentials of Cold War Soviet Doctrine and Organization for free" link
Scroll down (past a lot of great cold war stuff) to the "British Publications (updated 02/0418)" (sic) and click on "a very useful post TMP post by Tac Error TMP link
Warning: Part 3 Tactics is 99.5MB and Part 2 Operations is 268.1MB. This could take a while.
Then go back up and get some of that other good stuff
A great find Tango.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand