Word: amiragov
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Germ of the Blitz. Unlike irregular political theory, unorthodox military thinking in Russia has never been penalized. In the 1930s Soviet air-war theory was characterized by bold ideas. It was a Russian, Amiragov, who was among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces...
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