Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Yeah, that's nice of The Hague. Tell me when it's enforced.

 

I have to disagree here. Russian doctrine is based almost entirely on fires supported by maneuver (where ours is the opposite). And they are very good at it. Fires is by far the number one killer in this war.

What they’re terrible at is:
Logistics
Staff processes
NCO leadership

 

I'll defer to your expertise.

 

Some thoughts here on battle management:

 

I thought that paradigm had been totally shifted in the last decade. Of course, I also had been taught that Soviet military strategy was also offense, offense, offense with little variation, which left them vulnerable to rear-action countermeasures.

 

Not really. Russian fires have absolutely achieved objectives, but they lack small unit leaders (noncommissioned officers) able to lead maneuver forces to consolidate those gains. That’s why we’re seeing such stalemates that look like WWI. they can’t advance and retain the areas they smash with artillery.

Coupled with the fact that their logistics staffs, inability to protect sustainment nodes and win at contested sustainment, and maintenance is terrible, and you have a recipe for a long and protracted conflict.

But the number one reason Ukraine is still in this fight is our ability to train their NCO corps since 2014.

And Ukraine isn’t the only team we’re training. Operation Atlantic Resolve is USEUCOM’s answer to the National Defense Stragey’s Russian Deterrence Initiative, and it focuses almost wholly on parter force training and occupying key terrain (Latvia, for example) that changes Russian battlefield calculus.

 

this fucking guy

Defiant Putin Visits Mariupol, a City Razed by Russian Forces

 

‘We had to hide them’: how Ukraine’s ‘kidnapped’ children led to Vladimir Putin’s arrest warrant

 

Even worse IMO is a church’s top leader becoming part of the war brigade.

 

too slow too slow too slow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/21/abrams-tanks-ukraine/

 

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