August storm : the Soviet strategic offensive in Manchuria, 1945 / David M. Glantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glantz, David M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--China--Manchuria.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.

Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945.

Manchuria (China).

Soviet Union--History, Military.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Potomac, Maryland] : Pickle Partners publishing, [2014]

Summary:

[Includes 15 tables, 1 tables, 26 maps]In August 1945, only three months after the rumble of gunfire had subsided in Europe, Soviet armies launched massive attacks on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In a lightning campaign that lasted but ten days, Soviet forces ruptured Japanese defenses on a 4,000-kilometer front, paralyzed Japanese command and control, and plunged through 450 kilometers of forbidding terrain into the heartland of Manchuria. Effective Soviet cover and deception masked the scale of offensive preparations and produced strategic surprise. Imaginative tailoring of units to terrain, flexible combat formations, and bold maneuvers by armor-heavy, task-organized forward detachments and mobile groups produced operational and tactical surprise and, ultimately, rapid and total Soviet victory.For the Soviet Army, the Manchurian offensive was a true postgraduate combat exercise. The Soviets had to display all the operational and tactical techniques they had learned in four years of bitter fighting in the west. Though the offensive culminated an education, it also emerged as a clear case study of how a nation successfully begins a war in a race against the clock arid not only against an enemy, but also against hindering terrain.Soviet military historians and theorists have recently focused on the Manchurian offensive, a theater case study characterized by deep mobile operations on a broad front designed to pre-empt and overcome defenses. Because these characteristics appear relevant to current theater operations, the Soviets study the more prominent operational and tactical techniques used in Manchuria in 1945. What is of obvious interest to the Soviet military professional should be of interest to the U.S. officer as well.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Illustrations

Maps

Figure

Tables

Abbreviations

Soviet Forces

Japanese Forces

Symbols

Soviet

Japanese

Introduction

1 - Army Penetration Operations

The Route

Missions and Tasks

Japanese Defenses

Operational Planning

5th Army Attack

Conclusions

2 - Division Advance in Heavily Wooded Mountains

Terrain

Combat and Combat Service Support

1st Red Banner Army Attack

3 - Army Operations in Swampy Lowlands

35th Army Attack

4 - Set Piece Battle

The Setting

1st Red Banner Army Advance

5th Army Advance

Battle of Mutanchiang

5 - Reduction of a Fortified Region

Hutou: Strategic Significance

Soviet 35th Army Attack

6 - Army Operations in Arid Mountains

Situation in Western Manchuria

Soviet Operational Planning

39th Army Attack

7 - Forward Detachment Deep Operations

Situation in Northwestern Manchuria

36th Army Attack

8 - Joint Ground and Riverine Operations

Situation in Northeastern Manchuria

15th Army Attack

9 - Conclusions

Use of Terrain

Surprise

Maneuver

Task Organization of Units

The Author

COMBAT STUDIES INSTITUTE

Synopsis of Leavenworth Paper 8.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781786250421

178625042X

OCLC:

975224111