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...German tank technique is largely based on Der Kampfwagenkrieg (Battlewagon Warfare, 1935) by General Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger. The essence of the Eimannsberger thesis boils down to this: The tank is exclusively a weapon of large-scale strategic offensive, in no case of small-scale tactical attack, counterattack or defense. For defense against tanks, General von Eimannsberger devised a pattern of anti-tank guns in three rows-a six, twelve, six defense-covering a front about a mile and a half wide. Such a defense, he figured, would be able to knock out at least 54 tanks before being overcome...
...they neared Changsha, the Japanese dropped parachutists, signaled their plain-clothes men within the city. Japanese infantry penetrated the gates, raided the city. But they were tired. Sensing the moment, General Hsueh ordered a counterattack. Back snapped the bowstring, the Japanese with it. Foreign correspondents, whom the Japanese had summoned to witness a victory, saw from Japanese planes long columns of Japanese troops retreating...
...Reds were apparently not tuckered out yet, because a force with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...
While Russian counteroffensive and counterattack proceeded vigorously in the center (see below), in the Ukraine things began to look dim for Joseph Stalin this week...
Test of Strategy. Since July 16 Russia claimed to have beaten off 42 attacks on Smolensk, which Napoleon grabbed from strategic retreaters in one day. This Russian decision to stand and counterattack, however it turns out, will undoubtedly be credited to Stalin. But his chief military adviser is Vice Commissar of Defense, Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (Joseph Stalin himself is now self-appointed Commissar...