The Enduring Relevance of the Battle for Stalingrad

Abstract

More than six decades after the surrender of the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army, some 50 years after the last German prisoner of war was allowed to return to what had once been his homeland, and a couple of generations after the place was renamed Volgograd, the mention of Stalingrad brings distinct images, even to minds untaught in history and geography. In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq campaign, we were warned that the battle for Baghdad would become "another Stalingrad." There was no shortage of editorials that argued that the earlier battle might forecast the nature of the impending struggle for the Iraqi capital. Analogies of this kind express just how catastrophic the battle for Stalingrad was.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA522165

Entities

People

  • Brian Hanley

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Army
  • Artillery Fire
  • Battles
  • Combat Readiness
  • Geography
  • Military History
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Order Of Battle
  • Rear Areas
  • Repair Shops
  • Students
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.