ABSTRACT
Brigadier-General Eisenhower, assistant chief of staff at the War Plans Division, believed by the end of February that "Russia's problem is to sustain herself during the coming summer". Everything was possible, both a successful Soviet defence against a German spring offensive, and a Soviet collapse. Pika no longer saw any crisis in the sphere of the war effort, and the Soviets had enough equipment to "withstand" the Germans, although he did not believe that the Red Army would gain any material superiority over the Germans in 1942. Munitions output was partly reassessed during the autumn, but it is difficult to know what the Anglo-Americans really believed about the figures given to them by Soviet officials. Largely in contrast to many pre-Barbarossa assessments, people can see that the tone of the reporting regarding the population had changed considerably. It seems implicitly that most observers now believed that the population stood behind the regime, at least concerning the war effort.
