1980, and 1981. The questions they had were about manchuria. Now we have come full circle 35 years later. My task is to talk about ending the war in the pacific t. Three years ago, i received an invitation to the National Defense institute for defense studies in tokyo. And said, please come over spend a week with us and talk about whatever you would like. I said, im going to grab a topic i have been enticed by four years. Those of you know im interested in operational military street. The soviet german war in particular. Early 1990s, one of the more vexing questions that historians have not unable to answer is the question of stalins intent. His strategic intentions as he waged war in europe and of course later in the far east . There have been views on that, mostly well filtered through in the soviet union and even today in the Russian Federation. And afar, and the u. S. But we have never had a good view. The stalin archives, if they exist at all, the monumental biography of stalin co
Focusing on 1945 in asia and the pacific. David glantz discusses Joseph Stalin and the soviet union in the pacific war. Which ended 70 years ago this summer. He is editorinchief of the german and slavic military studies. The institute for the study of strategy and politics posted this event. David thank you for this invitation. I began my work on the soviet army, the red army, as a result of a trip to japan in 1979, 1980, and 1981. The questions they had were about manchuria. Now we have come full circle 35 years later. My task is to talk about ending the war in the pacific. A few words about the genesis of what going to be saying today. Three years ago, i received an invitation to the National Defense institute for defense studies in tokyo. They said, please come over and spend a week with us and talk about whatever you would like. I said, im going to grab a topic i have been enticed by four years. Those of you know im interested in operational military street. The soviet german war i
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