Reddit reviews The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941: A Military Political History, 1918-1941 (Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions (Hardcover))

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You know what? You're right, primary sources can often be so unreliable... especially those sneaky Nazis - how about this passage from John Erickson's The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941 describing Soviet reaction to their disastrous defeat in Kiev:

> While the Red Army launched attack after attack upon the German troops, the Stavka could not fail to draw two uncomfortable conclusions from this: that German losses had been grossly over-estimated and that the Soviet tactics and organization had been expensively deficient. The Russian attack method involved a three-minute artillery barrage, with the infantry attacking in a mass as much as twelve ranks deep, or else with riflemen on trucks driving abreast with the tanks in a frontal assault on the German firing-line. Securing the rear and flanks received much too little attention. Attacks were launched with inadequate intelligence of enemy dispositions and movements and in spite of what the regulation prescribed, with inadequate preparation, even 'rashness'.