{"id":74572,"date":"2022-06-25T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=74572"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:09:07","slug":"why-russias-smartest-general-failed-in-1916-the-brusilov-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/why-russias-smartest-general-failed-in-1916-the-brusilov-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia&#8217;s Smartest General Failed in 1916 (the Brusilov Offensive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lMUxtLaTFwI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 24 Jun 2022<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Curiosity Stream and get Nebula bundled in and SAVE 26%:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The start of the Brusilov Offensive was the most successful Russian military operation during the First World War. It crippled the Austro-Hungarian Army and forced the Germans to divert troops from Verdun. But the Brusilov Offensive ultimately was a failure and cost the Russians an enormous number of men. What went wrong?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nJohn Ozment, James Darcangelo, Jacob Carter Landt, Thomas Brendan, Kurt Gillies, Scott Deederly, John Belland, Adam Smith, Taylor Allen, Rustem Sharipov, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Marcus Bondura, Ramon Rijkhoek, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Philip Schoffman,  Avi Woolf,  Emile Bouffard, William Kincade, Daniel L Garza, Stefan Wei\u00df, Matt Barnes, Chris Daley, Marco Kuhnert, Simdoom<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nButtar, Prit, <em>Russia&#8217;s Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-1917<\/em>, (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Dowling, Timothy C., <em>The Brusilov Offensive<\/em>, (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>Golovin, Nicholas, &#8220;Brusilov&#8217;s Offensive: The Galician Battle of 1916&#8221;, <em>The Slavonic and East European Review<\/em>, Volume 13, Number 39, (1935)<\/p>\n<p>Schindler, John, &#8220;Steamrollered in Galicia: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the Brusilov Offensive, 1916&#8221;, <em>War in History<\/em>, Volume 10, Number 1, (2003)<\/p>\n<p>Stone, David R., <em>The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917<\/em>, (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>Tunstall, Graydon A., &#8220;Austria-Hungary and the Brusilov Offensive of 1916&#8221;, <em>The Historian<\/em>, Volume 70, Issue 1, (2008)<\/p>\n<p>Uzefovich, Alexis M., &#8220;Russia in the World War, 1914-1918&#8221;, <em>The Military Engineer<\/em>, Volume 33, Number 190, (1941)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb OUR SISTER CHANNEL<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Yves Thimian<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-74574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-25-at-15-44-50-Why-Russias-Smartest-General-Failed-in-1916-the-Brusilov-Offensive-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great War Published 24 Jun 2022 Sign up for Curiosity Stream and get Nebula bundled in and SAVE 26%: https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar The start of the Brusilov Offensive was the most successful Russian military operation during the First World War. 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