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"When in a critical military situation, outnumbered and outgunned, further disperse your forces by attacking elsewhere and expanding the front" isn't going to be making the director's cut of the Art of War.
Especially since the original goal was to use parts of Kursk as a way to get other land back. This clearly hasn't worked.
It defies reason that the best way to defend Pokrovsk would be to attack Kursk. The forces committed to Kursk could've been simply sent to defend Pokrovsk and stabilize the front there.
Your appeal to your own credulity and counter-proposal is committing forces where the enemy is strongest, already had advantageous positionings which enable a preponderance of fires, where counter-attacks would have been into their fortifications and air defenses, for a straight up fight in unfavorable logistical contexts.
Oy vey, someone did not pay attention to Art of War.
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