Russia and Ukraine

[Thumpalumpacus]

remember you wanted to bring up T34, nor me.  so who is being up the red herring?

My point, since you've obviously missed it again, is that in WWII the Soviets had numbers to beat back the invasion and then go in for the kill. Thousands of tanks, thousands of attack aircraft, in order to apply the concept of deep battle.

They don't have those numbers nowadays. That's why advocating WWII strategies for this modern battle is slipshod. The idea of applying deep battle with these paltry numbers seems pretty silly, with these poorly-trained conscripts and shanghaied Ukrainians thrown into battle with no training at all. Sorry, but that's an act of desperation, not genius.

Going down the qualities of WWII tanks as you're doing is mos' def a red herring. How about you address the modern issues? If you want multiple probing attacks before deciding on an attack vector, and then funneling reserves there, explain how you'll get those reserves there when the Russians cannot seem to pass up a grocery store for want of food? Logistics, logistics, logistics.

And how are you going to maintain multiple axes of advance when your manpower is 1/4 of that needed to pursue the operations you're advocating?

Sorry, your argument is entirely unconvincing. The Russians are concentrating in another obvious point, while their regrouping is allowing Ukrainians breathing space and time to redeploy as well (on interior lines), and how much more fuel are they burning moving those tired troops hither and fro?