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I am reading through it, it is interesting, but my point still holds: the manual is using WW2 experience, culled long after there was time to digest and cherrypick the right lessons. Soviet troops during didn't have the luxury of looking back at WW2 as an example of what to do right, they were figuring things out as they went, partially based on hastily developed lessons from previous operation, hard won experience, and pre-war theory/doctrine. As it was the majority of Soviet troops during were not trained, or at least had rudimentary training compared to the pre and post war standards (especially the post-war), so weren't fighting so much based on doctrine as such, but on what they could figure out as they went. Higher level commanders could of course rely on pre-war training and doctrine, honing their methods as they went based on experience. Take Bagration for example. That was largely based on pre-war doctrine (Isserson's developments from what I gather) and experience from 1941-43...which wasn't exactly when Deep Battle was really practiced (at least well).I disagree that is irrelevant except in the sense that of course Cold War Soviets would be more advanced than the German army of WWII, though, search in that book for "194" and I think you will change your mind when you see all the results pop up, just like as another example, Tactics: A Soviet View by Reznichenko, V G it is seemingly replete with historical examples of what the Soviets did 'right'
So my issue with using 1970s-80s refined Soviet doctrine or at least the American analysis of it, is that it highly refined and cherrypicks WW2 examples of when things were 'done right' for the modern army to emulate rather than actually detailing the reality of what the standard/average practice of WW2 were for the Soviet military. The post-war Soviet military was quite a different animal than the WW2 military, as they had the experience, time, and soon lack of Stalin to allow them to work out their wartime deficiencies and create the world's most formidable military.
Thanks for the suggestion about "Tactics" I'll check it out.