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developing a counter attack, an orderly retreat is to be rendered inpossible, and, according to the
large scale operations planned, capitulations is to be  brought about. Broad possibilities of action
are accorded the lower, middle and higher army headquaters; these small, middle and higher staffs
are assigned operations missions.
 
     The offensive penetrations and advances will be
executed by the use of armored divisions, motorized
units, and all types of the air arm. The use of the air arm will extend to the direct attack on the
enemy's air forces, their bases and ground organization.
     
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     These plans of operation consist (1ike all military
operations since 1939) in the exact working out of the
strategic plans, the undisturbed building up of all
offenesive formations (and the technical eqipment belonging to them) and the 
concealment of the decisive lines of advance of the main armies.
      The basic requirment for certain success depends, as usual, on an undisturbed
concentration. A counter thurstof the enemy must be precluded, as in the case of Poland, France
and in the southeast.
     The soviet Russian armies are at present not completely constituted or disposed; the
Siberian contingents can not make up for the known weaknesses.