( World war two if it was not obvious )
I wrote a bit about the losses sustained and the consequences of the battle of Kursk here. I mostly talk about the losses of both sides as cited by Lloyd Clark, and then short about how this affected the rest of the war. I would also add that the main problem was that the amount of tanks, and maybe more specifically what tanks, the Germans lost made it impossible to keep the initiative on the eastern front. The fact that the battle of Kursk failed to pin down the Red Army and that even before the Germans ended operation Zitadelle the Red Army was on the offensive made any later attacks immpossible. This, combined with the loss of tanks, forced the Germans to spread their armored divisions thinner and therefor they later lacked the ability to make decisive operational movements with their armored formations. Nevertheless, the Red Army continued on the offensive the rest of the summer and autumn and Germany never managed to get back the initiative on the eastern front.