- 03 Oct 2013 12:35
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With the other option being, standing building providing more fortresses and more sniping points, it was hardly a favor or game changer. Urban warfare is just like that.
Everything should be put in context.
Axis took 5.2 million soviet prisoners while soviets took 5.4 million within a four year span whereas Germans took 1.9 million French prisoners in six weeks. Obviously even this data sidelines many important contexts but the point is such statistical juggling could prove anyone's preconceived notions about war.
French were obviously not cowards (that is just stupid) but if anything Soviets were underrated.
Jessup wrote:The Germans actually done the Russians the biggest defensive favour when they levelled Stalingrad creating an almost impenetrable maze of rubble.
With the other option being, standing building providing more fortresses and more sniping points, it was hardly a favor or game changer. Urban warfare is just like that.
Layman wrote:The Soviets were overated.
5.7 million taken prisoner and they call the French cowards
Everything should be put in context.
Axis took 5.2 million soviet prisoners while soviets took 5.4 million within a four year span whereas Germans took 1.9 million French prisoners in six weeks. Obviously even this data sidelines many important contexts but the point is such statistical juggling could prove anyone's preconceived notions about war.
French were obviously not cowards (that is just stupid) but if anything Soviets were underrated.
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." Karl Marx