He didn't claim it did, but the question on the the scale of offensive operations is interesting. Doing lots of small, tactically succesful attacks without ever launching a truly large scale attack would gain ground, would confuse the Russians and most importantly could probably be made with less losses than large scale frontal attacks.
I think both of you are right - we see a lot of small operations right now to get tactical wins and to probe the Russians, and at some point we will see larger scale operations.