The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria,

At the request of its Western Allies, on 9 August 1945 a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers, supported by over 5500 tanks, and 27,000 artillery pieces, unleashed a massive offensive against the vaunted Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Employing extensive and imaginative maneuver to overcome terrain thought to be impenetrable, within two weeks, the attacking forces overcame formidable Japanese defenses along a front of more than 2700 miles spanning the most formidable terrain an army has ever faced, utterly demolished the Japanese defenders, and forced them to surrender. The Red Army's spectacular military victory in Manchuria has provided military theorists with an ideal model for the conduct of modern maneuver in war. Volume I covers in detail the background, strategic regrouping, and strategic planning and conduct of the offensive.

David M. Glantz is the founder and former director of the US Foreign Military Studies Office, Combined Arms Command, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Founder and Editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

List of Illustrations

vii

List of Maps

xi

List of Figures, Tables and Charts

xiv

Preface

xvii

List of Abbreviations

xxi

Symbols

xxiii

Introduction

xxv

PART I: BEFORE THE OFFENSIVE

1. Preparations for the Manchurian Strategic Offensive

3

(44)

2. The Theater of Military Operations

47

(13)

3. The Opposition: The Kwantung Army's Forces and Operational Plans

60

(32)

4. Soviet Organization for Combat and Force Structure

92

(27)

5. Soviet Offensive Military Theory on the Eve of the Manchurian Offensive

119

(20)

PART II: THE CONDUCT OF THE OFFENSIVE

6. Stavka and Far East Command Planning

139

(43)

7. The Trans-Baikal Front's Khingan-Mukden Offensive

182

(38)

8. The Ist Far Eastern Front's Harbin-Kirin Offensive

220

(38)

9. The 2d Far Eastern Front's Offensive Operation

258

(22)

10. Operations in Korea, Southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands,

and the Aborted Hokkaido Offensive

280

(31)

PART III: ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS

311

(36)

11. Analysis of the Offensive

12. Conclusions and Lessons

339

(8)

APPENDICES

347

(78)

1. Kwantung Army's Order of Battle, 30 July 1945

2. Actual Strength of Kwantung Army Components at Outbreak of Hostilities

(August 1945) and Killed-in-Action Estimates

355

(3)

3. The Operational Strength of Kwantung Army Forces, 9 August 1945

358

(2)

4. The Soviet Far East Command's Order of Battle, 9 August 1945

360

(21)

5. Operational Indices of the Manchurian Offensive

381

(2)

6. Soviet Documents on Operations in Manchuria

383

(33)

7. Soviet Documents on Operations on Southern Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Hokkaido 403

8. Japanese Maps Showing the Daily Development of Operations in Manchuria

416

(9)

Bibliography

425

(13)

Index

438

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The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm'

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