2026-07-18 15:54 UTC
@triz@normal.style this is really not true. the fusion of newly-evolved combined arms with the traditional prussian emphasis on concentration of force and controlling the tempo of warfare was a genuine advancement in military doctrine. germany was defeated due to any number of factors including the evaporation of their technological edge, vastly superior soviet and american productive capacity, better allied leadership, and, ultimately, by millions of soviet citizens giving up their lives
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@esvrld@normal.style 2026-07-18 15:55
@triz@normal.style it's honestly disrespectful to the scale of the victories at stalingrad and kursk and their enormous cost to imply that the initial success of the german offence was simply due to some nebulous element of surprise and that it then collapsed of itself