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This job very good. It’s like finding bones in egg. Every CO will sian of him. He will even suggest the maximum cock hair each NSF should have.
 

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A brief description for a real Inspector General. Please click on the link for full details. However this singkie version is BS. This IG reports directly to CDF. No different to Internal Affairs..whereby own self report own self. Remember the SAF hotline? They make u memorise the number and call of got problem. And guess what
...call oreadi make complain and Kenna Tekan even more. I doubt this IG will make an ounce of difference except for someone to blame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (German: [ɡuˈdeːʁi̯an]; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during the Nazi era. An early pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" (lightning war) doctrine, he successfully led Panzer (armoured) units during the Invasion of Poland, the Battle of France (including the Low Countries), and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Inspector General of Armoured TroopsEdit
After the German defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler realized he needed Guderian's expertise. He personally requested Guderian to take a new position as "Inspector General of Armoured Troops". Guderian made a number of stipulations to ensure that he would have the requisite authority to perform his duties. Hitler agreed to these conditions, and on 1 March 1943 he was appointed to the newly created position. His responsibilities were to oversee the rebuilding of the greatly weakened panzer arm, to oversee tank design and production, and the training of Germany's panzer forces, and he was to advise Hitler on their use. His new position allowed him to bypass much of the Nazi bureaucracy and report to Hitler directly.

Guderian was opposed by a number of officers in the Wehrmacht who did not want to see the scope of their own power and influence curtailed. Said Hermann Balck, who had worked with Guderian at the Inspectorate of Mobile Troops: "Guderian was always in conflict with everybody else. He was very hard to get along with, and it's a tribute to the German Army, as well as to Guderian's own remarkable abilities, that he was able to rise as high as he did within the German Army."[16] The primary area of resistance to Guderian came from the artillery branch.[23] In an effort to curtail Guderian's influence, an adjective was added to his areas of oversight, changing the term "assault guns", which was becoming an increasingly important source of firepower for the panzer divisions, to "heavy assault guns", which was far more limited. The qualifier removed the Stug III, Wespe and Hummel from Guderian's authority, meaning that 90% of assault gun production, training and use would be beyond his influence.[24]


Guderian being transported to the Eastern Front, 1943
Operation Citadel, the last major German offensive operation in the east, was an attempt by the German army to regain the initiative. The plans of the operation were known to the Soviet defenders, who spent months building up a defense in depth to sap the strength of the attacking panzer units. The operation violated two of the three tenets for successful tank operations that Guderian had laid out in Achtung – Panzer!, namely that terrain for the operation had to be chosen that was open, and not built up with heavy defenses. Secondly, and more importantly, the strike had to be delivered in a manner that took the defenders by surprise. In light of the obvious heavy defenses the Soviets had been preparing for the attack, the operation was a clear misuse of the Panzerwaffe. The result would be a significant weakening of German panzer forces, forces that Guderian had been trying to rebuild. In a conversation with Hitler on 14 May 1943, Guderian pointed out the futility of the operation, asking, "My Führer, why do you want to attack in the East at all this year?" Hitler responded, "You are quite right. Whenever I think of this attack my stomach turns over." Guderian concluded, "In that case your reaction to the problem is the correct one. Leave it alone."[25]

When General Wilhelm Keitel, the head of the OKW, explained the political importance of the offensive, Guderian remarked, "How many people do you think even know where Kursk is? It's a matter of profound indifference to the world whether we hold Kursk or not..."[26]

The attack, originally planned to begin in May, was delayed until July. It went on for a week before Soviet pressures on the Orelsalient to the north and the necessity to respond to the allied invasion of Sicilyresulted in the operation being halted. The Soviets then seized the initiative, which they held for the remainder of the war.

In his role as Inspector General of Armoured Troops, Guderian observed that Hitler was prone to experiment with too many designs, rather than finding an effective design and produce it in large numbers. He believed this resulted in logistical and repair problems for German forces in the Soviet Union.[27] Guderian would have preferred the production of larger numbers of Panzer IVsand Panthers, and less effort spent on such projects as the Jagdtiger, the Panzer VIII Maus super tank, and the Schwerer Gustav800 mm railway gun.

On 21 July 1944, after the failure of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler, in which Guderian had no direct involvement, Guderian was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army (Chef des Generalstabs des Heeres) succeeding Kurt Zeitzler who had departed on 1 July after multiple conflicts with Adolf Hitler.
 
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