I asked this under episode 174, when Indy talked about the end of Operation Mars. One of the channel mods asked me to repeat it here:
I once read, that Soviet doctrine said to attack in at least two places, and than support the more succesful attack, to facilitate an breakthrough, while the other attack(s) would be downgraded to a diversion. Wouldn’t that mean that both operations, did exactly what the doctrine laid out? The Red Army started two big attacks, both aimed at a breakthrough, when Uranus broke through, and Mars didn’t, Mars was downgraded to an diversion. Not because Mars was a failure, but because the doctrine demanded to exploit the bigger breakthrough.
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