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You should read up on modern (not Soviet) accounts of the battle of Kursk. The effect of the Luftwaffe was huge.

• mannykannot 5y ago
  As it failed to stop the Red Army's advance to and into Germany, that is beside the point here. In fact, as Wikipedia puts it "The Battle of Kursk was the first time in the Second World War that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate to its strategic depths. Though the Red Army had succeeded in winter offensives previously, their counter-offensives after the German attack at Kursk were their first successful summer offensives of the war." [my emphasis] The sources given for these observations are not Soviet ones. So the more you emphasize the role of the Luftwaffe at Kursk, the more you support my case!
  • choeger 5y ago
    You really ought to read up on the matter. Kursk was, on the onset, impossible odds. Yet the Wehrmacht inflicted massive casualties with relatively small own losses. If I am not mistaken, the level of destruction was not reached on a battlefield again until the first US-Iraq war. Of course the German offensive didn't succeed, but the Russian counter offensive didn't, either. The whole thing was a total strategic Soviet success, but operationally and tactically it demonstrated the value of a mechanized, combined-arms firepower doctrine.
    • mannykannot 5y ago
      And why ought I read up on the matter? Am I going to find out, contrary to what I have been led to believe, that the Germans' mastery of a mechanized, combined-arms firepower doctrine saved them from the Red Army?