Accession Number:
ADA522165
Title:
The Enduring Relevance of the Battle for Stalingrad
Descriptive Note:
Journal article
Corporate Author:
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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Report Date:
2006-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
6.0
Abstract:
More than six decades after the surrender of the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army, some 50 years after the last German prisoner of war was allowed to return to what had once been his homeland, and a couple of generations after the place was renamed Volgograd, the mention of Stalingrad brings distinct images, even to minds untaught in history and geography. In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq campaign, we were warned that the battle for Baghdad would become another Stalingrad. There was no shortage of editorials that argued that the earlier battle might forecast the nature of the impending struggle for the Iraqi capital. Analogies of this kind express just how catastrophic the battle for Stalingrad was.
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Subject Categories:
- Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics