An examination of the attack on the Soviet Union using the above map shows how the assault on the Murmansk railway line from Rovaniemi to Salla along the existing railway line to Kandalakscha ensured the attack reached to within 5km of the vital Murmansk railway line. The assault from Petsamo to Poljarnoje failed at the Litsa river with supply problems limiting the objective of capturing Murmansk. Defeat followed. In 1941 a modern army fought in an isolated, naturally inhosp