James Holland

So when you're talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Alex, you're dealing with an operation on such a vast scale that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure. It doesn't matter how good your individual commanders are at the front. If you haven't got the backup, it's not going to work.

So when you're talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Alex, you're dealing with an operation on such a vast scale that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure. It doesn't matter how good your individual commanders are at the front. If you haven't got the backup, it's not going to work.

So when you're talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question next...

you're dealing with an operation on such a vast scale that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure.

It doesn't matter how good your individual commanders are at the front.

If you haven't got the backup, it's not going to work.

And the problem that the Germans have is, yes, they've got their kind of, you know, 3 million men on the front, and they've got their kind of, you know, 3,000 aircraft and all the rest of it. But actually, what you need to do is break it down. And who is doing the hard yards of that? And the way the German war machine works is that the machine bit is only the spearhead.

And the problem that the Germans have is, yes, they've got their kind of, you know, 3 million men on the front, and they've got their kind of, you know, 3,000 aircraft and all the rest of it. But actually, what you need to do is break it down. And who is doing the hard yards of that? And the way the German war machine works is that the machine bit is only the spearhead.

And the problem that the Germans have is, yes, they've got their kind of, you know, 3 million men on the front, and they've got their kind of, you know, 3,000 aircraft and all the rest of it. But actually, what you need to do is break it down. And who is doing the hard yards of that? And the way the German war machine works is that the machine bit is only the spearhead.

And the problem that the Germans have is, yes, they've got their kind of, you know,

3 million men on the front, and they've got their kind of, you know, 3,000 aircraft and all the rest of it.

But actually, what you need to do is break it down.

And who is doing the hard yards of that?

And the way the German war machine works is that the machine bit is only the spearhead.

So people always talk about the Nazi war machine. In a way, it's a kind of misnomer because you're sort of suggesting that it's highly mechanized and industrialized and all the rest of it, and nothing could be further from the truth. The spearhead is... but the rest of it is not. And this is the kind of fatal flaw of the German armed forces.

So people always talk about the Nazi war machine. In a way, it's a kind of misnomer because you're sort of suggesting that it's highly mechanized and industrialized and all the rest of it, and nothing could be further from the truth. The spearhead is... but the rest of it is not. And this is the kind of fatal flaw of the German armed forces.

So people always talk about the Nazi war machine. In a way, it's a kind of misnomer because you're sort of suggesting that it's highly mechanized and industrialized and all the rest of it, and nothing could be further from the truth. The spearhead is... but the rest of it is not. And this is the kind of fatal flaw of the German armed forces.

So people always talk about the Nazi war machine.

In a way, it's a kind of misnomer because you're sort of suggesting that it's highly mechanized and industrialized and all the rest of it, and nothing could be further from the truth.

The spearhead is...