tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post4265279020322011825..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Mythbusters, a never-ending jobUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-58550282468931340752010-02-22T09:27:41.758+01:002010-02-22T09:27:41.758+01:00Fulda is where "Central Army Grop" is wr...Fulda is where "Central Army Grop" is written on the map, right about the "L".<br /><br /><br />Manstein wouldn't have approved of this plan. The similarities to German operational art from Moltke the Elder to the early 50's is superficial. The operation lacks a Schwerpunkt because it attempts two encirclements with three main groups and a fourth, pushing movement - all at once. German operational art would also not have had all those attacks with limited objectives to fix the other troops (or to deceive?). I recall no case inw hich more than one deception was used.<br />The breakthrough (if there was one necessary despite strategic surprise) would also have looked very differently.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-54657301804311847262010-02-22T04:35:09.622+01:002010-02-22T04:35:09.622+01:00I wonder who the Soviets borrowed their ideas abou...I wonder who the Soviets borrowed their ideas about strategic envelopment from?<br /><br />Von Motltke the elder or Von Schlieffen? But it's definately of Prussian origen.<br /><br />I'm not sure what or where the Fulda gap is. But I'd guess it's where Czechoslovakia bulged into West Germany, where good tank country provided the easiest route to cut West Germany in two?<br /><br />But if Nato was expecting the main Warsaw pact attack through the Fulda gap... ...that map of the plan of attack would get Von Manstein's seal of approval.Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-22107740472292260922010-02-17T14:28:48.932+01:002010-02-17T14:28:48.932+01:00Plans and intent are two very different things in ...Plans and intent are two very different things in the realm of military affairs.<br /><br />That works both ways (also against my argument), of course.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-22637518234921191732010-02-17T13:32:29.917+01:002010-02-17T13:32:29.917+01:00Gordon Barrass is wrong about the french forces in...Gordon Barrass is wrong about the french forces in Bold Sparrow (Kecker Spatz)and more. French defence policie was quite complicate under President Mitterand. FAR and 1ere Armee were not under NATO Command in Kecker Spatz and Fränkischer Schild 1986.<br />And yes WP had plans to nuke NATO Verfügungsräume!Le Francaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06018706985450896273noreply@blogger.com