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Development of Red Army tactics began during the Russian Civil War, and are still a subject of study within Russian military academies today. They were an important source of development in military theory, and in particular of armoured warfare before, during and after the Second World War, in the process influencing the outcome of World War II and the Korean War.
Internal training programs were; "Management Contact Manual" (1944) - a formal training course on how to sell the TWI programs to management, "How to get Continuing Results from TWI Programs in a Plant" (1944) - this training program was the out-growth of two years of practical experimentation and experience on what it took to have a successful implementation of TWI.
Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War (published 1990) is a book by the historian John Ellis that concludes that the Allied Forces won World War II not by the skill of their leaders, war planners and commanders in the field, but by brute force, which he describes as advantages in firepower and logistics.
The following plans are known to have existed: [1] War Plan Black [2] A plan for war with Germany. The best-known version of Black was conceived as a contingency plan during World War I in case France fell, and the Germans attempted to seize the French West Indies in the Caribbean Sea, or launch an attack on the eastern seaboard.
Indirect approach – Dislocation is the aim of strategy. Direct attacks almost never work, one must first upset the enemy's equilibrium, fix weakness and attack strength, Eight rules of strategy: 1) adjust your ends to your means, 2) keep your object always in mind, 3) choose the line of the least expectation, 4) exploit the line of least ...
Conscientious objector separated from work of national importance by issuance of a Certificate of Release. Nov 4, 1944: Mar 31, 1947: IV-E-H Conscientious objector, deferred by reason of being 28 and over. Aug 31, 1941: Nov 19, 1942: IV-E (H) Conscientious objector, available for or assigned to civilian work of national importance, age 38 to 44 ...
It has been called "one of the best known documents of World War II." [ 1 ] Confronting the problem of an expected two-front war against Germany and Italy in Europe and Japan in the Pacific , the memo set out the main options and suggested fighting a defensive war in the Pacific while giving strategic priority to defeating Germany and Italy.
Dehousing was a strategy adopted by the British against the Germans during World War II. It sought to maximize the damage to civilian housing. It sought to maximize the damage to civilian housing. The strategy was proposed via a memorandum on March 30, 1942, by Professor Frederick Lindemann, Baron Cherwell , the British government's chief ...