David M. Glantz

TL;DR: In this paper, Glantz and House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called the "Great Patriotic War" based on unprecedented access to formerly classified Soviet sources and radically revise our understanding of the Soviet experience during World War II.

TL;DR: The Slavonic Review- "There can be no doubt that this represents an impressive contribution to the study of Soviet military doctrine: intelligent, learned, comprehensive and convincing" as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In "Stumbling Colossus," David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Stumbling Colossus as discussed by the authors describes the Red Army's command leadership, mobilization and war planning, intelligence activities, and active and reserve combat formations, including a complete Order of Battle of Soviet forces on the eve of the German attack, documents the strength of Soviet armoured forces during the war's initial period and reproduces texts of actual Soviet war plans.