Changes in the organisational structure of the Red Army rifle forces at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War
... organisational structure of units and formations reflects their combat capability. This structure, laid down in documents such as organisation and equipment tables, reveals how the military leadership views a specific unit at a specific point in time. Rifle forces constituted the main part of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. Before the war, rifle forces consisted of rifle divisions consolidated into rifle corps of two or three divisions. Their organisational structure was reformed shorty before ...
