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On 5 December the Soviets launched a surprise counter-offensive. The Germans were forced into a retreat, despite Hitler's call to defend every foot of ground. Guderian and several other senior generals who advised withdrawal were sacked. The Russians succeeded in crushing various German formations in encirclements of their own. The Luftwaffe struggled to operate but performed vital work ferrying supplies to cut off units and harrying the Russian advance. Army Group Centre was pushed back up to 150 miles from Moscow. A furious Hitler dismissed the commander-in-chief of the German Army, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, and appointed himself in his place.


I think there may also be a bit of correlation rather than causation here. We tend to forget that Brandenburg-Prussia really didn't engage in wars for its own sake until Friedrich II, so there's not exactly a long history of great native commanders for him to draw on as his inspiration. Too, there was (and is) an accepted canon of great captains that all contemporary military figures discussed and said were their inspiration: Maurits of Nassau; Gustav Adolf, Baner, and Karl II; the many other commanders of the Thirty Years War; and Condé, Turenne, Luxembourg, Villars, and a dozen other French commanders during the reigns of Louis XIII and XIV. Every work on military theory written during the period will nod to these men, either as paragons or as lessons. In reality, this was more of a literary trope than a reality, a way of granting a work the imprimatur necessary for it to be taken seriously by military thinkers and practitioners in the same way a reference to Vegetius, Caesar, or another Classical writer would. In the same way, commanders and writers, including Friedrich, would reference a particular great captain or a specific battle in order to provide support for their own ideas, even to the point of falsifying a quote or attributing an idea to a person who did not have it - you see this a lot with Turenne, who did not publish during his lifetime and had many spurious memoirs published after his death. Finally, contemporary generals were expected to read and study the great campaigns of the great captains, whether they were Classical, German, French, or Italian (we've notably excepted Eugene of Savoy and Montecuccoli from this list, so far) and adapt those examples for their own practice. As a result of all of this, drawing direct lines between institutions, especially as different as the French and Brandenburger-Prussian, is a difficult thesis to prove.


At the same time, I think you oversell your case, Jörg. Friedrich undoubtedly used the examples of French commanders of the prior period to educate both himself and his commanders. We all know his predilection for French culture over German, particularly considering how new Brandenburg-Prussia was relative to other German states, giving him few "native" examples to draw on. Feuquières' book was considered the best work on military theory in the early eighteenth century (if only because it didn't have any real competition), so it's natural that it was passed around every army. Louis XIV's many wars produced a variety of skilled commanders and campaigns worth of study - how could we deny that they were not read and digested by Brandenburger-Prussian generals, including Friedrich and Heinrich? Too, Folard was not a "maverick," nor was he "ostracized for his writings" - he was a favorite of Maurice de Saxe, became his mentor in military theory, and inspired two subsequent generations of French military theorists, including Saxe himself, Mesnil-Durand, and a host of others, in creating and sustaining l'ordre profond. I cannot say, however, that Folard exercised any influence over Prussia, as he largely concerned himself with tactics, not operations or strategy.
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