Primele acţiuni militare pe Frontul din Dobrogea. Bătălia de la Turtucaia şi consecinţele acesteia asupra evoluţiei militare de pe Frontul de Sud

Abstract

A The actions of the Romanian Army on the South Front were decisively influenced by the Turtucaia battles. Although there was a secondary front, there were enough forces and means, which through a judicious planning and cooperation could have stopped the German-Bulgarian offensive. Unfortunately, the lack of a realistic strategy and faulty coordination of the units and large units arranged in Dobrogea, Romanian army suffered the most resounding defeat, a situation that had affected the entire campaign in 1916 and at the same time had a negative impact on the morale of Romanian soldiers, but also on public opinion. One of the major consequences was stopping military operations on the main Northern Front and the deployment of seven divisions from this front to the south, allowing the Austro-Hungarian and German armies to recoil in Transylvania, thus being compromised the Romanian offensive, which had been successful on this front. Turtucaia remained a lesson of strategy and military art, which was widely debated in military historiography, with lessons and conclusions for the Romanian army's operative military units.

Keywords

• strategy
• army
• war
• front
• offensive
• campaign
• military units