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introduction
, giving an overview of the major trials, tribulations and conflicts, followed by the the main body of the article. The main body needs to acknowledge the legacy of the Imperial Russian Army and the First World War experience that created the Soviet Union, the Civil War, and war with Poland of course. These would represent the introduction to why and how the Red Army was created.
Historical Overview
of the development of the Ground Forces through its significant periods: formative (1925 - 1936), combat (1936 - 1946), transformative (1947 - 1961), consolidating (1962 - 1984), and final (1985 - 1993), and explain what happened for them to deserve these appellations (ok, not those actual words - I just used one word for what would be a sentence).
Higher direction - Politburo and MOD
Then go to the Structure and say how decisions were taken at strategic level, including the link to the Politburo,
Administrative organisation
Rifle forces, artillery, tank forces, engineers, signals, support organisations
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Like other armies, the Red Army used administrative departments (called Directorates) to develop, train and equip the many combat Arms of Service troops and their Service Corps support echelons. These were:
- airborne troops
- anti tank troops
- armoured division staff
- armoured engineer companies
- armoured training regiments
- armoured trains
- armoured units
- army AA units
- army map and military survey
- army propaganda troops
- army dogs units
- artillery observation training units
- artillery observation units
- artillery troops
- artillery training units
- barrier troops
- cavalry units
- chemical troops
- fortification engineers
- fortification signals
- Frunze Military Academy
- general armoured commands
- general command
- machine gun troops
- medical officers and NCO
- medical training units
- medical troops
- Military District and Front command
- military field police
- military justice units
- mobilisation processing personnel
- mortar battalions (MRL)
- motor maintenance troops
- motorcycle units
- motorised troops
- mountain troop divisional staff
- mounted artillery troops
- Officers of the Stavka
- railway engineer training companies
- railway troops
- reconnaissance (mounted)
- reconnaissance (motorised)
- rifle troops
- rifle divisional staff
- rifle training regiments
- rifle and mountaineering units
- rifle unit staff
- sapper troops
- sapper training battalions
- signals training regiment
- signals troops
- ski troops
- smoke training units
- smoke troops
- specialist officers
- supply officers
- technical officers
- transport supply officer
- transport training units
- transport troops
- veterinary officers and NCOs
- veterinary troops
Operational organisation
Formations of the Soviet Army The Soviet division The corps, the Army (Soviet Army) (iv) then the section on the organisation, and how that relates to the operational art as a doctrine. ->links to orders of battle by period ->A full OOB would be several separate articles, listing ~500++ divs in midwar, plus mech/tank corps, ~300(?) odd divs in 1946-7, and 200 odd divs in 1960s-80s. Finally, the OOB and how and why the Ground Forces were organised, stationed and equipped in the way that they were. There are good sources, primarily Simpkin and Glantz again (his job for US Army was in Soviet doctrine, not history).
- Do you mean Race to the Swift? And which Glantz books? Buckshot06 (talk) 11:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, the late Brigadier wrote several books on the operational art, and was an expert on the Soviet doctrine bar none in terms of published material.
- Glantz wrote Soviet Military Operational Art - In pursuit of deep battle which is not on his article. I would highly recommend it as it recapitulates the Simpkin research, and adds to it in a relatively slim volume. Somewhat more readable also because Simpkin wrote not only in the British style, but one from another era.
- Front — the largest wartime field formation, equivalent to an army group in many other forces
- Army — the largest peacetime field formation. Each is designated a combined arms army or tank army. During WWII the Fortified Region usually corresponded to an Army frontage formation.
- Corps — Rifle, Cavalry, Artillery, Mechanised, Tank, Aviation and Aviation of PVO, and Airborne Corps.
- Rifle Corps was a formation that existed in the pre-Revolution Imperial Russian Army, and was inherited by the Red Army. First suggestions for creation of large mechanised or tank formations in the Soviet Union were suggested based on development of doctrine for publication as PU-36, the field regulations largely authored by Marshal Tukhachevsky, and was created where "In the attack tanks must be employed in mass", envisaged as "Strategic cavalry". Although the name of "mechanised" may seem to the modern reader as referring to the infantry components of the Corps, in 1936 they referred to armoured vehicles only with the word "motorised" referring to the units equipped with trucks.
- Division — originally rifle or cavalry, later motor-rifle, tank, artillery, aviation, sapper or airborne. See divisions of the Soviet Union 1917-1945, list of Soviet Army divisions 1989-91
Criticisms(?)
(vi) Lastly, you can include a section on "Suvorov" and his views as criticisms, something other articles on Armies lack completely as if no one has ever criticises then.
Sources and References
- p.179, Simpkin
- ibid., p180.