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A Skillful Combination of Fire and Maneuver

Dority, Paul
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1525279618910305

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, History.
My thesis seeks to understand if the Wehrmacht understood the Red Army’s operational doctrine following the war. I will analyze both Red Army and Wehrmacht after action reports and memoirs created after the war to accomplish this. This analysis covers the Battle for Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad¸ Operation Zitadelle, and ends with the destruction of the Wehrmacht’s Army Group Center in Operation Bagration. This period represents the marked rise and decline of the Wehrmacht’s martial supremacy in Russia. The comparison of Russian and German after action reports from this period exposes a weakness in German operational doctrine, which ultimately destroys the Wehrmacht in the East. The Wehrmacht excelled in the tactical layer of strategy, but failed to exploit its tactical victories at the operational level. The Wehrmacht’s obsession with victory through tactical supremacy caused them to create patterns of doctrinal behavior that the Red Army exploited time and time again.
Paul Lockhart, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jonathan Winkler, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sean Pollock, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
98 p.
History; Military History; Military Studies; Russian History
STAVKA; OKH; OKW; Doctrinal strategy; Wehrmacht; Red Army; Eastern Front; World War II

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  • Dority, P. (2018). A Skillful Combination of Fire and Maneuver [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1525279618910305

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dority, Paul. A Skillful Combination of Fire and Maneuver. 2018. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1525279618910305.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dority, Paul. "A Skillful Combination of Fire and Maneuver." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1525279618910305

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