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Grisha -> RE: East Front book talk (7/23/2010 6:07:03 AM)
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Two facets of Soviet operational art in WWII that are still little understood are their conduct of deception (maskirovka) and of intelligence (razvedka). It was a force multiplier at the operational level, which meant that at the tactical level its effect was magnified significantly. For example, prior to the Vistula-Oder operation of 1945, the Germans did not detect or identify roughly half the Soviet forces present in that operational area, a number that amounted to a million soldiers.
Glantz wrote two books that address these two aspects of Soviet operational art:
a) Soviet Military Intelligence in War.
b) Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War.
Other good books that address Soviet operational art or those aspects of intelligence and deception are:
i) In Pursuit of Military Excellence by Shimon Naveh
ii) Red Army Legacies by Richard Armstrong
iii) The Soviet Conduct of Tactical Maneuver by Glantz
iv) The Nature of Operations of Modern Armies by Triandafillov
Admittedly, these books can make for dry reading, but if the objective is to understand Soviet military operations in WWII, then these are strongly recommended.
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