Editing Blitzkrieg (section)

===Russia and Soviet Union===
In 1916, General [[Alexei Brusilov]] had used surprise and infiltration tactics during the [[Brusilov Offensive]]. Later, Marshal [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]] (1893–1937), {{ill|Georgii Isserson|ru|Иссерсон, Георгий Самойлович}} (1898–1976) and other members of the [[Red Army]] developed a concept of [[deep battle]] from the experience of the [[Polish–Soviet War]] of 1919–1920. Those concepts would guide the Red Army doctrine throughout the Second World War. Realising the limitations of infantry and cavalry, Tukhachevsky advocated mechanized formations and the large-scale industrialisation that they required. Robert Watt (2008) wrote that blitzkrieg has little in common with Soviet deep battle.{{sfn|Watt|2008|pp=677–678}} In 2002, H. P. Willmott had noted that deep battle contained two important differences from blitzkrieg by being a doctrine of total war, not of limited operations, and rejecting decisive battle in favour of several large simultaneous offensives.{{sfn|Willmott|2002|p= 116}}

The ''Reichswehr'' and the Red Army began a secret collaboration in the [[Soviet Union]] to evade the Treaty of Versailles occupational agent, the [[Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control|Inter-Allied Commission]]. In 1926 [[military exercise|war games]] and tests began at [[Kazan]] and [[Lipetsk]], in the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]]. The centers served to field-test aircraft and armored vehicles up to the battalion level and housed aerial- and armoured-warfare schools through which officers rotated.{{sfn|Edwards|1989|p= 23}}