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You're asking a way lowly me to answer that?
Seriously, the easiest answer is the big picture. Just how big of a picture do you have to have before it becomes too big? A private only needs to worry about the guy shooting at him. He doesn't have to worry about the tank 20 miles down the road. During WWII, the level of action shrunk from even from the War of 1812. The Brits took Washington DC with less than 10th of the men committed to Stalingrad. So, say for the Red Army, a division would only have a very narrow focus and could not take on the bigger picture.
Now, this being said, the Soviets (and the Chinese) had a very different command style and culture than ours, one borned out of necessity by Stalin's purges. Alot of good officers were lost and the few that were left had to be put into place where they are of maximum use, ie the bigger the picture they control, the better.
Ours is a different circumstance. We had the good fortune of keeping our officers and even spreading them out to the Dominions, Colonies, and British India. So, we tended to keep the control at the division and corps level but more at the regiment level.
The US, however, was an officer factory.
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Chimo
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