10 Facts About Deep operation

Deep operation, known as Soviet Deep Battle, was a military theory developed by the Soviet Union for its armed forces during the 1920s and 1930s.

The goal of a deep operation was to inflict a decisive strategic defeat on the enemy's logistical abilities and render the defence of their front more difficult, impossible or irrelevant.

Deep operation determined that the vast size of the Soviet Union ensured that some mobility was still possible.

Deep operation battle encompassed manoeuvre by multiple Soviet Army front-size formations simultaneously.

Each Deep operation served to divert enemy attention and keep the defender guessing about where the main effort and the main objective lay.

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The deep operation was geared toward operations at the Army and or Front level and was larger, in terms of the forces engaged, than deep battle's tactical component, which used units not larger than corps size.

Central composition of the deep operation was the shock army, which acted either in co-operation with others or independently as part of a strategic front operation.

Deep operation concept was thrown out of Soviet military strategy, as it was associated with the denounced figures that created it.

The Kharkov Deep operation was designed to attack the northern flank of German forces around Kharkov, to seize bridgeheads across the Donets River north east of the city.

The Deep operation was to encircle the Fourth Panzer Army and German Sixth Army as they advanced towards the Dnepr river.