The combat supply of the Russian army in the world war. Manikovsky A.A.

Alexey Alekseevich Manikovsky (13 (25) March 1865 - January 1920) - artillery general (1916). He was since May 1915 by the head of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Imperial Army. At the height of the Civil War, being one of the founders of the artillery troops of the Socialist Republic, he decided to present in writing a detailed picture of the combat supply of the Russian army during the First World War, primarily so that the artillery of Soviet Russia would not suffer that damage and not survive those the failures that went to the share of her predecessors - the artillery of imperial Russia.

Aleksey Alekseevich was well aware of when and how they began to prepare for the inevitable war, how and where orders were posted for the artillery of the tsarist army, what opportunities appeared A significant number of enterprising subjects of the emperor and foreigners receive military orders and not to fulfill them on time. The already warring army, due to the criminal error in determining the date of the beginning of the war and the terms of mobilization of industry, suffocated without ammunition, and then survived the horror of the surrender of fortified areas and fortresses with the remaining artillery due to the impossibility of taking it out. Perhaps after reading about this, you will look differently to today's world. Everything will happen again if you do not pay attention to the past.