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His issue is he only views things through an economist's lens and he tries to cram the facts into the mold he is familiar with, which distorts the picture. Whether or not he deliberately chose to misrepresent things is almost immaterial to the point, which is he gets stuff wrong in his analysis...

Be careful with Glantz, he is very good on the documentary evidence on the Soviet side of the hill, but is often blatantly wrong on the German side. His interpretation of the facts is flawed quite often too, even on Soviet stuff. Tooze is also hardly perfect and you should also read Overy on...

Can you remind me when that happened historically? In August-September 2nd and 3rd panzer armies were continually fighting and advancing over distances at least if not even further than it would have taken to get to Moscow, except heading north and south. They not only did just fine, they...

The Soviets only survive 1941 due to Hitler not going for Moscow in August. They lucked out and were able to use their masses of men to win the war. Sure they developed great sophistication as the war went on, but without their huge numbers and willing to suffer heinous casualties (~30 million...