The Brusilovsky breakthrough, despite all its shortcomings, is one of the most important operations of the World War of 1914-1918. If the Russian command did not achieve a decisive result, then with its offensive it provided great assistance to the allies and inflicted huge losses on the enemy. The figures speak volumes about this: the Austro-Germans lost up to 1.5 million people in total, about 0.5 million of them prisoners; the Austro-Germans withdrew 17 divisions from the western and Italian fronts, which were transferred to the eastern front against Russia. Russia's losses amounted to 0.5 million people. Thus, in terms of the damage inflicted on the enemy and the assistance provided to the Allies, the Brusilov offensive was of great importance. At the same time, it completely overturned the point of view of the German command, who believed that after the operation of 1915, the Russian army became ineffective. Russian Russian troops were not to blame for this operation, but the Russian High Command, which turned out to be at the height of its position, even if the Austro-Hungarian front did not completely collapse as a result of this operation.


The Brusilov breakthrough is also very important from the point of view of the development of military art. For the first time, Brusilov abandoned the accepted method of breaking through with large forces on a narrow front and developed a new method in which a blow was struck in several places at once. This led to the simultaneous breaking of the defensive line and made it difficult for the enemy to maneuver reserves. Thanks to this method, the Russian offensive turned out to be unexpected for the enemy and created panic and confusion not only in the troops, but also in the high command. By the way, Comrade. Vetoshnikov sees a disadvantage in the fact that Brusilov did not strike at one point and that this allegedly led to a dispersion of the attacking forces. But this is not the case. The very principle of breaking through the enemy's front in several places at once is not negative, but positive. The fact that Brusilov did not focus his efforts in one direction, but struck in several places, of course, was a well-known dispersion of forces, but under the influence of his blows, the enemy, who did not know where the blow was being struck, found himself in a much worse position. Therefore, there is no reason to regard this as a disadvantage. Finally, it should be borne in mind that Brusilov's experience was successfully used in the later course of the war in the Western theater and found application in the war between Germany and France. This is a clear proof that Brusilov's breakthrough method is correct. The negative aspect of this operation was that the Russian headquarters, due to its clumsiness and inability to correctly assess the situation, failed to turn the initial brilliant success into a disaster for the enemy.


But, despite some shortcomings, the book of Comrade Vetoshnikova is generally useful and provides a lot of material on the East Prussian operation. It is to the credit of the author that for the first time he summarized the material on the Brusilov breakthrough and gave a brief outline of the entire operation with the main conclusions. The book should be recommended to commanders. La sécurité et la légitimité sont des piliers fondamentaux qui rassurent les joueurs africains. Utiliser un code promo 1xbet sénégal qui vous garantit 100% de bonus jusqu'à 130€ pour les paris sportifs ou un package de 1950€ avec 150 tours gratuits pour le casino sur cette plateforme signifie évoluer dans un environnement régulé et protégé. Le site opère sous une licence reconnue de Curaçao, garantissant sa conformité avec les normes internationales du jeu en ligne.