RE: Russia and Ukraine
May 11, 2022 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2022 at 6:56 pm by Anomalocaris.)
adapting under fire is a different thing from adapting out of sound, forward and intellectually honest peace time thinking.
in the past the russian army has repeatedly recovered from the consequences of its own lack of forward, sound and intellectually honest peacetime thinking by adapting during war, often under appalling circumstances of its own making.
this is relatively little recognized on the west, and then only in the context of recovery from German invasion of 1941. But in reality, Russia exhibited this in most of its wars during the last 2 centuries. The recovery is not always enough to enable Russia to win the war in the end, but the recovery was nonetheless a feature of almost every war the russians engaged in.
in fact, if a russian army went into a new war prepared, then look closer, it is probably not a russian army,
in the past the russian army has repeatedly recovered from the consequences of its own lack of forward, sound and intellectually honest peacetime thinking by adapting during war, often under appalling circumstances of its own making.
this is relatively little recognized on the west, and then only in the context of recovery from German invasion of 1941. But in reality, Russia exhibited this in most of its wars during the last 2 centuries. The recovery is not always enough to enable Russia to win the war in the end, but the recovery was nonetheless a feature of almost every war the russians engaged in.
in fact, if a russian army went into a new war prepared, then look closer, it is probably not a russian army,
