Georgii Samoilovich Isserson Combat Studies Institute Press Bruce W. Menning
From the foreword: "Bruce Mennings translation of Georgii Samoilovich Issersons 1936 treatise The Evolution of Operational Art is the best example available of the distillation of Soviet military thought before the Second World War. Isserson, Tukhachevsky, Shaposhnikov, and others like them were founding members of a focused military Enlightenment whose goal was to change the way armies and leaders thought about war. Moreover, unlike contemporaries such as B.H. Liddell Hart or Billy Mitchell, they had the opportunity to build their ideas into the modern Soviet Army and see their doctrine...
From the foreword: "Bruce Mennings translation of Georgii Samoilovich Issersons 1936 treatise The Evolution of Operational Art is the best example ava...