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...General Staff. The credit for Hitler's failure went to many: soldiers, factory workers, railwaymen. Russia was also beginning to realize that a big part belonged to the officers of Generalnyii Shtab -the General Staff-who plotted Russia's offensives with precision, boldness, readiness to test new concepts. What Russia's Shtab had achieved in the shadow of defeat and in the pursuit of victory had few parallels in military annals...
Since its first big counterattack before Moscow in 1941, the Shtab had plotted a dozen major and scores of minor offensives. From these a definite pattern had emerged. A drive's duration depended on weather, terrain, German defenses, human endurance, condition of roads, ability of the transport system to feed the offensive...
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