In this episode, we discuss:

*Col Glantz’s Vietnam service

*How his experiences in Vietnam influenced him as a military historian and researcher

*What led him to study the Nazi-Soviet War

*The Army’s Art of War Symposia from 1984-1987

*How the Soviet Army and US Army defined doctrine (move???)

*The case for an operational level of war

*The introduction of the operational level of war to US Army doctrine

*The origins of the US Army’s AirLand Battle doctrine

*The 11 January 1976 Incident

*The evolution of Soviet operational mobile groups, tank corps, tank armies, and mechanized corps

*The concept of lessons learned and Col Glantz’s critique of it

*The Soviet approach to lessons learned, including the practice of Socialist Criticism

*The effect Stalin’s purges on the officer corps had on the Soviet military’s performance in World War II

*Col Glantz’s thoughts on why the Soviets didn’t march on Berlin in February 1945

*Comparing and Contrasting Zhukov and Rokossovsky

*How and why Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, failed

*Turning points of the Eastern Front

*Forgotten battles of the war

*Major myths of the war

*Correlation of forces

*Initiative and risk-taking in the Red Army

*Improvements in Soviet training

*German and Soviet penal battalions

*The work of Jack Radey and Charles Sharp

*Notable Soviet and German amphibious operations

*Some of the discoveries Col Glantz made in writing his trilogy on Stalingrad

*Similarities between the Soviet storm groups and the German stormtrooper units of WWII

*The 7th and 8th Guards Tank Armies as a potential “pocket

*The relative levels of military-theoretical development the Soviets and Western Allies had reached by May 1945

*The Russian-language military history websites Col Glantz uses for research

*The movies Enemy at the Gates and Stalingrad

*Persistent errors, misconceptions, and faulty interpretations in the literature of the Nazi-Soviet war

*Col Glantz’s advice to young scholars of the Soviet-Nazi War

*What service members can learn from the Eastern Front today, and Col Glantz’s advice on studying the war

*Areas of the Nazi-Soviet War we know relatively little about and where Col Glantz would like to see research done

*Col Glantz’s current projects

*His thoughts on the war in Ukraine

Errata

*Col Glantz states that Hermann Balck was the commander of 48th Panzer Corps during the German relief attempt of the Stalingrad Pocket. Balck, however, was the commander of 11th Panzer Division, a subordinate formation of 48th Panzer Corps.

Links

Col Glantz’s Amazon page

Col Glantz’s website for his self-published atlases and works

When Titans Clashed by Col David Glantz

Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat by Col David Glantz

The Soviet-German War: Myths and Realities by Col David Glantz

Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks: The World War II Memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza

Fighting for the Soviet Motherland: Recollections from the Eastern Front by Dmitriy Loza

The Defense of Moscow 1941: The Northern Flank

Kharkov 1942: Anatomy of a Military Disaster Through Soviet Eyes by Col David Glantz

Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War II by Col David Glantz