The ease with which Putin took Crimea is in marked contrast to the difficulties suffered by the Germans in WWII. But Hitler’s commander battled through to give him what was, in the end, the German’s last great victory. This is how he did it… — “The efficacy of a fortress is plainly composed of two different elements, the passive and the active. By the first it shelters the place, and all that it contains; by the other it possesses a certain influence over the adjacent country, even beyond the range of its guns.”
