Necessity and Change: Contributing Factors and the Development of Soviet Operational Art

Abstract

The creation and maturation of the Soviet Union and resulting modernization efforts of society and the military continued the evolution of new ways to view warfare and frame the problem of command and control and operational planning in support of massive forces over expansive distances. The result was a new concept that ultimately enabled the Soviet Union to adequately control massed forces, fires, and maneuver them in linked operations to defeat the Germans in World War II. Past war performance (in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Russian Civil War) combined with significant alterations to the political, social, and cultural structures of the nation and the growing technological advances of the early twentieth century contributed to development of a formalized methodology to visualize, plan, and execute large scale operations in a method that supported the Russian/Soviet state and way of war.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA603154

Entities

People

  • Mark E. Zarnecki

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Education
  • Lessons Learned
  • Maneuvers
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Political Ideologies
  • Political Movements
  • Revolutions
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control