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Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is a term some of you might have heard of before. It is an event that changes the established way of doing things on the battlefield on its head. For example, the battle of Cambrai in WWI was the first massed armor attack in history. After the
war the Germans would improve on it by adding more mechanized infantry and flying artillery. The Americans would build on that by making the entire army motorized. So by 1945 we had system most of us grew up with. Big heavy fast divisions that fought with combined arms.
The Russians (Soviets) adopted this same revolution but with a twist. Where western formations stressed the maneuver for advantage, the Soviets stressed fires. They planned to attack "a outrance" and so kept a fires based army that Genghis Khan would have understood. Stay put and
