How we defeated Kolchak. Lessons from the Civil War

Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, a personnel officer of the old tsarist army, joined the Red Army in March 1918 immediately after its formation.
During the years of the Civil War, he proved himself as a talented commander: his army (which included the famous division of V.I. Chapaev) played a decisive role in the defeat of excessive forces of the whites on the Volga, the Urals and in Siberia, which predetermined the final collapse " Supreme Ruler of Russia "Admiral Kolchak. For these military operations, Tukhachevsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and for the victory over Kolchak - honorary revolutionary weapons.
In his book M.N. Tukhachevsky talks about the battles with Kolchak, about the features of the actions of the Red Army at that time, starting from a series of small blows ("war of bugs") to large -scale offensive operations. The experience of the Civil War serves him to extract lessons in strategic and tactical training of the Red Army, including for individual kinds of troops - infantry, artillery, mechanized