Summary Soviet casualties and losses during Operation Barbarossa - Part 1, 3 and 3 Part of Eastern Front Week (3) on WW2TV This is what will be covered in today's show: 1. Introduction. Important terms and definitions used in Military Operations Research (OR). 2. A brief history of the Soviet Great Patriotic War 'casualty story'. 3. The current Russian Federation's position on Soviet WWII casualties, - Some of the data inconsistencies and contradictions relating to low 1941 loss estimates, - Some words on the NKVD (strength and probable losses in 1941). Nigel Askey was born in South Africa and now lives in Australia. There, his work has mainly been in the area of information technology (computers) and data warehousing - the information technology term commonly applied to organising, storing, cataloguing and querying a very large amount of often disparate data to obtain specific statistical information. This training has proved useful in designing and building the large database of information incorporated into Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis. He is also a wargamer and creator of tactical-operational military simulations. In 2003, he began working on the various volumes of Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation.

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