ABSTRACT
When conducting their Manchurian offensive, Soviet commanders at all levels adhered closely to operational and tactical concepts and techniques prescribed by the 1944 Field Regulations modified to reflect the Red Army’s most recent combat experience and the peculiar conditions in Manchuria. The necessity for a rapid advance, the vast expanse of diverse terrain in the Manchurian theater of military operations, and the nature of Japanese defenses ultimately determined how specific Soviet forces would operate. To achieve the high rates of advance demanded by the Stavka and Far East Command, front, army, and corps commanders often modified these concepts and techniques to reflect their assigned missions and the unique conditions in their designated operational or tactical sectors and axes of advance.
