This is somewhat beside the Maskirovka point, but it's funny how things are perceived. If you read for instance von Mellenthin's memoirs he glows ecstatic about the thrashing his friend Balck is giving the Popoffs in the Stalingrad relief operation, and of course it was a heck of string of tactical successes, but then the world is crashing about their ears, for for each tactical success there is a sea of disaster.
A few tactical successes may be fine but one canīt lose perspective and forget about the general backdrop.
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