DAESH : Middle East 2014....

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Hitler's wargames prior to operation "Barbarossa" reinforced his assumption that the "rotten house of cards" should fall into pieces once properly pressed and the Red Army should be defeated yet before the advent of the winter and that is why Wehrmacht and the like weren't even issued any winter greases for their equipment, there weren't any plans for that as there were no expectations the campaign would last past autumn. One of the official history lies based on the Nazi "Deutsch Ubermensch" successful propaganda is that going to war with the Soviet Union was "Hitler's gamble" blaming Hitler personally for the defeat there as the common conception of the WWII history allowed itself to be falsely persuaded that the Germans couldn't not have made such a mistake consciously.

Anyway, linear measures typical for regular warfare and hight tech large scale high tempo military operations are often deficient against asymetric opponent - examples are Vietnam, Afghanistan and so on.