UncleBuck -> RE: Soviet Base Build (8/2/2004 9:05:39 PM)
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Well think about how you counteract force size. If you have small forces to garrison an area with (you drew the troops somewhere else) you build fortifications to let fewer defenders do more, the idea of Garrisons. SO I think it makes MORE sense for the Soviets to build fortifications, expand bases and such during 41/42 then it would to stop. Any Commander worth his salt would take the troops he does have command of and use them to expand defenses, and facilities. You never know when the Japanese are going to invade from Manchuria, which Stalin and the Soviets feared, but we NOW know Japan was deathly afraid of. I think this is a matter of Hindsight clouding how we see Soviet buildup. Also remember that although many I-16 fighters are showing up, by 1942 these little planes were woefully antiquated. They were sent to a front they could do something in; in the West they were easy prey to faster German planes. UB
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