Resolution. . .
(Resolution. . .) All is quiet on New Year's Day. Except in the Russo-Ukraine War. One of the things that was going to carry over from last year and any resolution at this point is nowhere evident. New Year's Day 1943 had the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad with about one more month of "life," before final capitulation was inevitable. Today, the city that had been known as Stalingrad is now called Volgograd, because it lay on the Volga. That being said, Sixth Army's rear area was astride the Don River. The current theater of operations is several hundred miles west of the Don. January on the Russian/Ukrainian plain, when the ground is frozen, is ideal for armor. Tank warfare had been perfected on the Eastern Front in World War II, and as the conflict progressed, tens of thousands of armored vehicles took to the field. The Soviets lost over twenty million military and civilian fatalities in what had been colloquially referred as the Great Patriotic War. Before he w...