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Maybe Germany wouldn't have invaded Russia if more officers had spoken up about how bad of an idea it was; conformity and following orders is something the Prus

• bruce511 2y ago
  To some degree all military ideas are bad, so there is very limited scope for "speaking up". Militaries are not democracies. Orders flow downhill. In this specific case the guy on top wanted to invade for reasons. Yes, What objections the generals would have had would have been partly suppressed by the natural military doctrine (but that exists in all militaries) but equally the nature of their leader's personality would have suppressed objection. He was not known for changing his mind. Equally after the successes of 1940 it Likely wasn't as obvious a mistake then as we see it now. Had the UK fallen in 1940, and there being no second front, (and hence no North Africa) Barbarossa would have like succeeded as well.
• Beijinger 2y ago
  Russia lost in WW1...
• 082349872349872 2y ago
  > conformity and following orders Citation needed. MCDP 1 "Warfighting" is basically a tl;dr of Clausewitz. What the USMC called "Mission tactics" ca. 1989 was, by the Prussians, called "Auftragstaktik" over a century earlier. as to "conformity", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung Finally, Germany needed to invade Russia for the oil. (eg Maikop, Grozny, Baku, and fields to their southeast) No oil, no Blitz. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue )