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Me too.
I knew it would happen!
Oh well, I had fun writing my post, (the one which was deleted) and saved it for a more appropriate venue in the near future...
-Sean

Today so far:

-King Tubby and Glen Brown Termination Dub (rec'd Jamaica, 1972-79)

-Wilhelm Furtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic Orch. Beethoven's 9th (rec'd. Berlin, March 1942)

-The Fall -Dragnet (1979) and Fall Heads Roll (2005)

Some of you guys must have an awful lot of spare time on your hands! But then again, I'm a slow typer. Typ ist . :? Quote: That's what this ultimately comes down to! Uh, that's What exactly that it ultimately comes down to? Speculation! That's what the whole point of the topic is. It's also one of t...

Thanks, Qvist. :up: I already have Krivosheev's figures, and they are so general, they are only slightly useful. I'm really hoping someone will have better Red Army numbers somewhere. Maybe at RKKA... Concerning the German figures you gave, what is the source? Do you happen to have the Total, Combat...

Sean said The Red Army in front of Moscow in late Oct/Nov was very weak. You yourself just said they had been cataclysmically defeated. If so, then why didn't the Germans take it? Because of the presence of a large industrial city with millions of people and a vast RR net reaching all over the Sovi...

Hi Everyone, I need help from you with a large and ongoing research project. I also think it's a fairly important topic that has not recieved the attention it deserves from military historians. The Battle of Smolensk, and the operations of Heeresgruppe Mitte/Army Group Center from approximately July...

Hi Qvist: The whole Barbarossa undertaking was based fundamentally around the central premiss of destroying the Red Army in the field, and this was the only way in which a decsive victory could be won in a single campaigning season - something on which again the Barbarossa plan rested entirely. Well...

Hitler's decision to focus on long-term 'economic' objectives instead of the immediate concerns of paralyzing and destroying the Red Army at Moscow in July/Aug 41 probably (but not certainly) cost Germany the war. To put it more accurately, a determined thrust to Moscow by AG Center in the summer/au...

I have yet to see any actual analysis in support of the supposition that without Moscow, the red army would have no way of deploying adequately or of sustaining itself in the field. Rather, this is simply assumed, and this is not good enough to establish the critical importance of Moscow. Yes, an &...

Sbornik Boevyk Documentov Velikiye Otechestvennoi Voina (not sure of the transliteration) but it means "Collection of Combat Documents from the Great Patriotic War". This was produced from 1947-1960 by the Soviet General Staff/Ministry of Defence to use as instructional materials for offic...

Well, Qvist, you're correct in doubting the importance of Moscow to the Soviets. After all, military historians (and forum participants) usually ignore the importance of logistics because it seems to be boring. They always discuss weaponry ("the T-34 won the war") or numbers of men (as you...

Qvist: I think you're missing the point: without the Moscow area's transportation and logistical infrastructure, the Red Army CANNOT concentrate the forces needed to stop the Germans. If AGC attacks and isolates/captures Moscow in SEPT, how will the Soviets assemble the necessarry troops in DECEMBER...

The argument that the Soviet forces arrayed against AGC in Aug-Sep were stronger than in Oct is completely ludicrous. Western and Reserve Fronts had been thouroghly chewed up during July and only began re-forming in Aug. During Aug they launched a number of offensives against AGC which were very ann...

Yes, Oleg, youre correct that it is a potential flaw, but the Soviet sources that have become available since 83 (when HPE was first published) have confirmed what Stolfi wrote; the Soviet Army in the summer of 41 was a complete mess. Glantz's Stumbling Colossus (another book written with only sourc...

One of the great all-time What-Ifs...At the risk of taking an unpopular point of view, I think that Barbarossa was lost when Hitler decided to send Guderian's armor to Kiev. The importance of this decision has been mentioned by other historians, but never really explored at great length, at least in...