By David M. Glantz
As huge and enforcing because it used to be on paper in 1941, the Soviet Union's
military strength constitution proved a bulky and inept army strength ill-equipped to
contest the attempted and established Wehrmacht. measurement by myself couldn't make amends for shortsighted
strategic management, clumsy mobilization, rigid command on the operational and
tactical degrees, and ill-trained and ill-equipped squaddies within the box. The Wehrmacht
savaged the crimson military through the first six months of conflict, in so doing actually wrecking
both its prewar ideas for waging struggle and army forces. confronted with calamity after
calamity, the crimson military recoiled, buying and selling land and soldiers' lives for time.
In the tip, a mixture of things approved the Soviet Union and its pink Army
to live to tell the tale. First, the German military tried to struggle a conflict within the immensity of Eastern
Europe with strategic and operational recommendations larger suited for the restricted confines of
Western Europe. as a result, it was once sick ready to deal with stipulations within the tremendous territorial
expanses of the Soviet Union. moment, over the top German ambitiousness and a nearly
congenital lack of ability to outline designated and possible strategic pursuits mixed to
confound the skills of the even so much gifted of German box commanders. Time and
again, the German battling machine's succeed in passed its seize. 3rd, even though the
Soviet's mobilization method was once clumsy, as soon as set in movement, it was once inexorable. It
produced wave after wave of recent armies, which, even if usually scarcely priceless of the
lofty identify, again and again refilled the purple Army's depleted order of conflict from time to time while the
Germans have been confident the Soviets have been all the way down to their final battalions. the very fact used to be that
quantity did topic, either materially and psychologically. although vulnerable they have been, the
very lifestyles and the shock visual appeal of diverse new Soviet armies disconcerted
German commanders and proved that amount had a top quality of its own.
The fourth, and most crucial issue, was once the Soviet political and military
leadership's skill to regulate to nasty fact. regardless of its enormous preliminary failings,
circumstances themselves impelled the Soviet strategic management, largely Stalin and
the Stavka (headquarters of the splendid excessive Command), to acknowledge that wholesale
changes have been required within the method within which it deliberate for and waged battle.
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35. 43 were primarily deployed along the western borders of the country from the Barents to the Black Sea and in the Transcaucasus, Central Asia, and the Far East. These light security forces generally occupied posts alongside Red Army fortified regions. On the country's western borders there were 8 border districts manned by over 100,000 men, 47 ground and 6 naval border guards detachments (the latter under the People's Commissariat of the Navy), 9 separate border guards commands [komendatura], and 11 regiments ofNKVD operational forces.
Aerosleigh battalion 2 sep. armored car battalions 7 sep. armored train battalions 13th Artillery Division 14th Artillery Division 15th Artillery Division 16th Artillery Division 17th Artillery Division 20th Artillery Division 21st Artillery Division 22d Artillery Division 23d Artillery Division 24th Artillery Division 25th Artillery Division (Hqs. only) 65th Light Artillery Brigade 3 howitzer artillery regiments 16 high-powered howitzer artillery regiments 6 sep. special-powered artillery battalions 21 antitank artillery regiments 2 mortar brigades 6th Guards-mortar Division (2 brigades) 8 guards-mortar regiments .
At the same time, it abolished the existing PVO fronts and armies and replaced them with two new PVO Fronts (the Western and Eastern), which covered all of the European Soviet Union. In addition, the GKO assigned all other existing PVO armies and corps, division, and brigade regions to four new PVO zones, each subordinate to a military district commander. The reformed structure was in transition on 1 July 1943, with the Moscow PVO Front still in existence. Figure 10 shows the PVO organization on 1 July 1943.
