RE: Russia and Ukraine
October 8, 2022 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2022 at 11:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The production of shells and rockets is a microcosm there. It's taken about three weeks to consume an entire years worth of production at us levels. Presumably, it takes much longer to manufacture lost armor and equipment than to manufacture their munitions. Not that it would matter if they could be quickly replaced, because a tank without a firing cannon is just a tractor. Artillery without shells, a trailer hitch ornament..no more useful than a pair of balls and a whole lot more costly in fuel to haul down the road.
Aggressive reform from a competent government, dreamland style, with mass mobilized production and no interruptions or more compelling needs or shortages along the way? A decade. Just to get men, even, who are still alive, and have a decades worth of useful combat experience. But that would be a different country, with a different admin, that waged war a different way.
What they have now...is a product of reform. This is what it looks like in mere reality, when russia tries to do exactly that.
Aggressive reform from a competent government, dreamland style, with mass mobilized production and no interruptions or more compelling needs or shortages along the way? A decade. Just to get men, even, who are still alive, and have a decades worth of useful combat experience. But that would be a different country, with a different admin, that waged war a different way.
What they have now...is a product of reform. This is what it looks like in mere reality, when russia tries to do exactly that.
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