
Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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German Tanks Turned Into Backbones
When you start losing so many people in droves, specially well educated leaders, all trained onesavye, you lose the ability to rapidly replace them. And this went double for tanks and anything that required lex manufacturing. So the so called armored spearhead of blitzgrig i e, their tanks turned into a backbone. German tanks were not expected to fight other tanks. That's not what they were for. Because he tanks were meant to move fast, smash through enemy lines and then circle back around. They weren't uslike get bogged down. This creaded a feedback loop of shit where tanks were asked to do more. They took more casualties, but in doing so,
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